The story behind the dish classic American foods - McWilliams, Mark (Greenwood, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Apple pie -- Bagels -- Baked beans -- Barbecue -- Brownies -- Buffalo wings -- Cheesesteaks -- Chili -- Chocolate chip cookies -- Clambake -- Cobblers and bettys, slumps and grunts -- Cobb salad -- Cornbread -- Corn flakes -- Crab cakes and lobster rolls -- Cracker jack -- Fortune cookies -- Fried chicken -- Fried green tomatoes -- Frozen custard, soft serve, and ice cream -- Fry bread -- Grits -- Gumbo -- Ham biscuits -- Hamburgers -- Hoagies and subs -- Hot dogs -- Hunter's stews : burgoo and Brunswick stew -- Ice cream cones -- Macaroni and cheese -- Meat loaf -- Pasties -- Peanut butter and jelly -- Pierogis -- Pizza -- Po'boys -- Potato chips -- Pumpkin pie -- Rice and beans : from Hoppin' John to Moors and Christians -- Scrapple -- Shoofly pie -- Strawberry shortcake -- Sweet potato pie -- Tacos -- Tomato soup -- Tuna noodle casserole -- Turkey and stuffing -- Waldorf salad