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Savoring Gotham
A Food Lover's
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Andrew F. Smith

Fast Food
A Global
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Andrew F. Smith

New York City
A Food Biography

Andrew F. Smith
Lanham, MD
AltaMira Press, 2013
New York City
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“I love to discover information about the obscure, unknown, forgotten and neglected — and I love to share it. If, in the process, I also disprove some conventional wisdom so much the better. Whether digging for a kernel of truth in the history of popcorn or following the global trail of Leo Cherne (the man who saved the world) I’ve had a chance to learn about the interplay between culture, events, science and people. And, equally exciting, I get to tell the story of what I’ve learned.“

-Andrew F. Smith

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Best Eating in
New York?
A Food Historian Has
Some Advice
Andrew F. Smith
offers advice

How Fast Food Shaped
America(ns)
An interview with
Andrew F. Smith

McDonaldization and the
Future of Fast Food
An interview with
Andrew F. Smith

How New Yorkers
Celebrated New Year‘s
Before the Ball Drop
by Andrew F. Smith
Edible Manhattan
December 31, 2015

The Christmas Conspiracy
(or How New Yorkers Created Santa Claus),
by Andrew F. Smith
Edible Manhattan
December 22, 2015

Savoring Gotham: Celebrating
the Making of the
Definitive Companion to
New York City’s Food,
edited by Andrew F. Smith

Foodies celebrate
Savoring Gotham: A Food
Lover’s Companion to
New York City,
edited by Andrew F. Smith

Celebrating
Savoring Gotham:
A Food Lover’s Companion to
New York City,
edited by Andrew F. Smith

8 Things We Learned About
NYC's Culinary Life From One
Big Book

Peanut Butter:
The Vegetarian Conspiracy
by Andrew F. Smith

Andrew F. Smith talks Turkey

Listen to his Heritage Radio
interview:

Andrew F. Smith talks Tuna

Andrew Smith talks about
American Tuna:

Andrew F. Smith
The Founding of the Food
Network:
A 20 Year Retrospective

FEATURED
ARTICLES

N.Y.’s place in
Thanksgiving lore:
How Gotham is as
central to our
modern conception
of the holiday as
New England
by Andrew F. Smith

Peanut Butter:
The Vegetarian
Conspiracy

Hellmann’s Mayonnaise: A History

Kitchens through the Ages

by Andrew F. Smith Read it on Gourmet Live

Did Hunger Defeat the Confederacy?

Chipping Away at British and American English