New York City: A Food Biography by Andrew F. Smith

Altough there are thousands of book about New York, this is the first real biography about the food of New York City. Where did the food of NYC orginate? In New York City: a food biography you read everything you want to know about this topic.

The book starts with the discovery of New York by the Dutch Peter Stuyvesant, whereafter he vividly describes about te first inhabitants of the city and what they eat and how they got their food.
Ofcourse, a huge part of New Yorks kitchen is highly influenced by immigrants who came to New York for a better life from countries as Germany, Ireland, Italy and certainly Jewish immigrants became one of the major factors of the food of New York. Hot Dogs, Pizza, Bagels, Hamburgers, Bagels, Waldorf Salad were introduced to Americans through New York’s colorful street vendors, cooks, and restaurateurs. New immigrant groups came and added their kitchen to the colorful scheme of the New York kitchend and added Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, South American, and many other international cuisine of the city, its hard to imagine anything you can't get there. The book gives a good impression of how food was sold in the city, from simple street vendors till the first and the present haute cuisine restaurants. The book also give a good impression of food politics and how some now well known food brands where originated and much more fascination information, from the beginning of New York city till the present time and food trends.