Wellfleet Public Library

As American as apple pie. It's a familiar saying, yet gumbo and chop suey are also American! What we eat tells us who we are: where were from, how we move from place to place, and how we express our cultures and living traditions. In twelve dishes that take middle grade readers from thousands of years ago through today, Bite by Bite: American History Through Feasts, Foods, and Side Dishes explores the diverse peoples and foodways that make up the United States. From First Salmon Feasts of the Umatilla and Cayuse tribes in the Pacific Northwest to fish fries celebrated by formerly enslaved African Americans, from “red sauce” Italian restaurants popular with young bohemians in the East to Cantonese restaurants enjoyed by rebellious young eaters in the West, this is the true story of the many Americas-laid out bite by bite.

Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue, and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA's first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, author Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.