Making Slow Food Fast in California Cuisine

1. Introduction: A Context for California Cuisine
Victor W. Geraci

2. The Early Californian Larder and the Gold Rush Food Revolution
Victor W. Geraci

3. Climate, Land, Water, and Government Policies Establish California Agribusiness
Victor W. Geraci

4. Ingredients for the First California Cuisine
Victor W. Geraci

5. The Early Wine Industry; Establishing California Vintibusiness
Victor W. Geraci

6. Agribusiness Reigns in California
Victor W. Geraci

7. Laying the Foundation for California’s Industrial Food Model
Victor W. Geraci

8. Redesigning the California Quest for Good Food in the Early Twentieth Century
Victor W. Geraci

9. California Fast Food Cuisine
Victor W. Geraci

10. California Wine Rises to Stardom
Victor W. Geraci

11. Beginnings of a California Counter-Cuisine
Victor W. Geraci

12. Everyday Cooks Challenge Fast Industrial Foodways
Victor W. Geraci

13. Slow Food Pioneers Rebuild a California Cuisine
Victor W. Geraci

14. Bay Area Struggles to Defeat Fast Food
Victor W. Geraci

15. Epilogue: Shifting the Paradigm: Short Steps Toward Sustainability
Victor W. Geraci

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, American Culture, Cultural History, Agricultural Ethics, Agricultural Economics, Oral History