Kansas City: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies)

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While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City used to be in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. All through its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way somewhere else, be it by the use of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train, automobile, or airplane. As Kansas City’s adopted son, Fred Harvey sagely noted, “Trip follows good food routes,” and Kansas City’s identity as a food city is in large part according to that fact. Kansas City: A Food Biography explores in fascinating detail how a frontier town at the edge of wilderness grew into an important metropolis, one famous for not only great cuisine but for a crossroads hospitality that continues to define it. Kansas City: A Food Biography also explores how politics, race, culture, gender, immigration, and art have forged the city’s most iconic dishes, from chili and steak to fried chicken and barbecue. In energetic detail, Andrea Broomfield brings the Kansas City food scene to life.

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