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Pumpkin : the curious history of an Americanicon

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	the curious history of an Americanicon
[NT 47261] Author:	OttCindy,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Seattle, Wash
[NT 47263] Published:	University of Washington Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2012
[NT 50960] Edition:	1st ed.
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 323 p.)ill. :
[NT 47298] Series:	Weyerhaeuser environmental books
[NT 47266] Subject:	Pumpkin growers - History - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Cooking (Pumpkin) - History - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Pumpkin - History -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780295804446/
[NT 51398] Summary:
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780295804446electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0295804440electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780295991955hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	029599195Xhbk.

Pumpkin : the curious history of an Americanicon
Ott, Cindy

Pumpkin : the curious history of an Americanicon / Cindy Ott - 1st ed.. - Seattle, Wash : University of Washington Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 323 p.) ; ill.. - (Weyerhaeuser environmental books).
ISBN 9780295804446ISBN 0295804440ISBN 9780295991955ISBN 029599195X
Pumpkin growersCooking (Pumpkin)Pumpkin -- History -- History -- History -- United States -- United States

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330 $a "Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holidaypies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop.In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us. Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University."From the symbolism of pumpkins in classical and medieval mythology, to locavores and harvest festivals, Ott's paean to pumpkins is important, entertaining, and enlightening." -Warren Belasco, author of Food, the Key Concepts"An original, carefully researched, engagingly written, even playful and witty foray into the exploding field of food history by an up-and-coming star in the field. How appropriate that so delightful a vegetable has an equally delightful book to pay ittribute." -from the Foreword by William Cronon"--
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