Hans Röckenwagner was born and raised in Germany, trained as a chef in Germany and Switzerland, and at the mere age of 22 moved to the U.S. to run the kitchen at Chicago's famed Le Perroquet. Three years later, he opened Röckenwagner in Venice, quickly winning national acclaim for his fresh, inventive Californian take on the German classics of his youth. Today he is the proprietor of several L.A. restaurants, including Cafe Röckenwagner and 3 Square Cafe, as well as a large commercial bakery. He divides his time between homes in Los Angeles and New York.Jenn Garbee is a writer and editor who h

When people think of dock-side dining in Massachusetts they imagine buttery toasted lobster rolls, steaming bowls of creamy fish chowder, and alabaster-white slabs of baked cod piled with bread crumbs, but its rich and varied cuisine reflects all who have come to call these seaports home. Cultures--including, Sicilian, Portuguese, Finnish, and Irish--that fished and worked the granite quarries there a century ago were so tightly bound that generations have stayed and continue to leave their culinary mark on coastline. In Cod We Trust features over 175 recipes that celebrate the area's unique p

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places like urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to property rights and advocated local control over racial issues. Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which-among other things-required desegregation of the nation's restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most private of activities-cooking and dining- became a cause for public concern from the meeting rooms of local women's clubs to the halls of the U.S. Congress.