The History of Cooking in America

I saw this pattern in the kitchen that I thought wasn't really represented in cookbooks. Everything that I was learning on a daily basis could be distilled into understanding how salt, fat, acid and heat worked. These concepts were not ever explicitly explained in those books. What used to be sort of passed down from generation to generation doesn't happen anymore. Those things need to be spelled out for people now because your grandma's not doing that for you.