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Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats Kindle Edition

by Karen L Schnitzphan (Author), Margaret Buchholz (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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“Chock full of photographs, the book dishes on food from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, all along the coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May.” —RedBankGreen
 
No trip to the Jersey Shore would be complete without indulging in the cuisine that helps make it famous. These foods we enjoy today are part of a long tradition beginning in the Victorian era, when big oceanfront hotels served elaborate meals. Diverse dishes and restaurants emerged during prohibition and the Great Depression, when fast food appeared and iconic boardwalk treats developed. Predating the farm to table movement, fancy and fast eateries have been supplied by local fishermen and farmers for decades. So whether you indulge in a tomato pie, pork roll or salt water taffy, take a mouthwatering historical tour and discover timeless treats from Sandy Hook to Cape May.
 
“Tells the story of the original farm and sea to table American destination. The book is filled with information about the way the NJ shore has eaten through history and the food establishments that have spanned generations, some still operating today.” —NJ.com
 
“This book also gives us insights into the earliest days of Atlantic City’s fine hotels. The Victorian era menus included in the volume are a treasure. I also loved her inclusion of such iconic former restaurants as Hackney’s and Capt. Starn’s and the still standing Knife and Fork Inn.” —Atlantic City Central
 
“If you enjoy walking the Boardwalk for your pork roll and salt water taffy fix, or if you appreciate the history of the region’s former great restaurants like Hackney’s, Capt. Starn’s and Zaberer’s, this book will be an entertaining read.” —Atlantic City Weekly
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Karen Schnitzspahn has authored or co-authored many books of local and regional interest in New Jersey.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XR208RI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcadia Publishing (March 14, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 14, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5692 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
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    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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Karen L. Schnitzspahn

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Garden State native Karen L. Schnitzspahn enjoys researching and writing about little known aspects of New Jersey Shore history. The author of numerous books and articles has won awards for her writing and efforts to preserve the history of Monmouth County NJ. Her latest books are "Remarkable Women of the New Jersey Shore" (2015), stories of extraordinary Jersey Shore women, and "Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats" (2012), a historical food tour of the NJ coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May. It's a delicious romp back in time from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. She coauthored two books with her mentor, the late George H. Moss Jr, a well known Jersey Shore historian. With a background in art and theater, she takes a special interest in theatrical history, the art of puppetry, and early photography. Karen's family summered in the Atlantic City area where her parents met on the Boardwalk! Karen loves to travel and spends time out in the beautiful American west, but she's a "Jersey Girl" at heart.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Source for Upcoming Fundraiser Dinner at All Saints' Memorial Church
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2014
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This work by Karen Schnitzpahn has proven to be an invaluable research tool for catering a Victorian-era dinner at All Saints' Memorial Church, Navesink in celebration of the church's 150th Anniversary year. I had nearly given uphope of finding the necessary fine dining protocols or menu choices prior to coming upon this book. Thank you very much, Ms. Schnitzspahn, for your careful research and easily-read treatise.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jersey Shore Food History - Review
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2013
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The book appeared designed to please the reader. The organization of the chapters, the movement from one concept to another made reading it seem seamless. From location, facility, type of food, and era of time all seemed to meld together and take the reader of a smooth historical and memorable journey from the past to today. Very enjoyable.
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JerseyJohn
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved reading about the history of the places I'm familiar ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015
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As a life-long NJ resident, I loved reading about the history of the places I'm familiar with. Whether this would appeal to someone who didn't grow up in NJ, I'm not sure.
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GMK
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Boardwalk Nostalgia
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
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As a Jersey Shore native who was transplanted to the Midwest over 30 years ago, this book brought back wonderful memories. I bought a couple of copies and gave them as gifts, and everyone has enjoyed the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2017
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Interesting read. Makes me sorry I missed so many of these Jersey shore places.
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Rocco J.
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2014
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This book reads more like a commercial then a food history. Very little history here folks.
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lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013
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if you are familiar with the Jersey Shore, you will really enjoy this very well written book. And you should check out Ms Schnitzpahn's other books as well-all great!
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Margaret T. Buchholz
4.0 out of 5 stars If you Love the Shore and Love to Eat.....
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2013
Full disclosure: I wrote the Foreword to Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats ([...] or online sellers, 2012) so I can't write a critical review. But I can tell you what the book is about and then - if you love the shore and love to eat - you'll decide for yourself.
As I read Karen Schnitzspahn's book about the history of food on the Jersey Shore, I thought about my childhood at the edge of the sea, redolent of crabs and clams from the bay outside my window, and fresh striped bass and bluefish from the ocean two blocks away. Until I was an adult, however, this succulent seafood never passed my lips. Clams were for digging and crabs were for netting, to be sold to the local clam bar - every town along the shore had one. We sometimes had fish when my father wasn't home, but his brief, unsuccessful foray as a fisherman made him refuse anything with scales on his dinner plate.
Tourists were a different kettle of fish; they came to the shore especially to eat the bounty from the sea. Jersey Shore Food History takes us back to a time when vacationers came by stagecoach and then train, and in the 20th century by car. Anticipating the mouthwatering seafood and local produce was an important part of their summer holiday. They came first to boarding houses, then to rambling wooden oceanfront hotels, where their dinner plates were loaded, truly loaded, with seafood and everything else. The author reproduces an 1873 dinner menu from Long Branch's posh West End Hotel and a wine list from Leland's Ocean Hotel. It's hard to imagine getting up from the table after eating and drinking all that was offered. (For an LBI menu from 1901, check out the Oceanic Hotel's menus on display at the Barnegat Light Museum. Dieters warned to stay away.)
This excursion throughout the Jersey Shore's culinary and restaurant history takes us from the 1850s, when visitors were introduced to the produce that made New Jersey the Garden State - squash, tomatoes, and sweet, succulent corn - to mid-20th century's fast food. The author's insightful research brings us stories of what people ate and where they did it, from white tablecloth restaurants to Boardwalk food stands.
Jersey Shore Food History is loaded with photographs, illustrations and some tempting recipes stirred in too. And you'll discover that the locavore movement isn't new -- Atlantic City's Hotel Dennis grew its produce on the mainland and had a "farm to table" dining room in the 1920s and `30s.
A chapter titled "Casual Eats and Boardwalk Treats" walks us through the history of tomato pies and pizza (in the 1940s and `50s The Gateway in Ship Bottom sold tomato pies, not pizza), hoagies and subs (there's a 1964 photo of The Beatles about to devour a White House Sub), Taylor's Pork Roll, hot dogs and saltwater taffy.
Schnitzspahn's previous book, The Roaring 20s at the Jersey Shore, is a sumptuous feast of text and images, bringing that wild period to life. In Jersey Shore Food History she takes us on a real feast - a scrumptious, meandering, tasty journey of shore eating.
As I said, if you love to eat and you love the shore...
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