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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their "authenticity" and ends in "bowdlerization."
The blue-plate specials typically offered as "American cuisine"--hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken, baked beans, hot dogs--aren't worth considering, Mintz says, despite such "irrepressible enthusiasts" as Edna Lewis and Betty Fussell.
Mintz quotes some astonishing speeches by Abolitionists who easily equated cane sugar with murder, one of them even providing the precise calculus: "[I]n every pound of sugar used (the product of the slaves imported from Africa), we may be considered as consuming two ounces of blood."
None of Mintz's other chapters is quite as satisfying as the three devoted to sugar.
Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no "cuisine."