Taste of Broadway

Jennifer Packard has nearly twenty years of experience in the food industry. She currently does freelance writing on food issues and works as a research associate at Harvard University. Jennifer loves to make up new recipes which she tests out on her husband and three teen-aged sons.

• Introduction: The First TasteChapter 1: Food to Set the SceneChapter 2: Regional FoodsChapter 3: Food as IdentityChapter 4: Explaining Characters and RelationshipsChapter 5: Just Trying to Put Food on the TableChapter 6: Food Representing ClassChapter 7: The Way to a Man’s (or Woman’s) HeartConclusion: The Last Morsel

A fascinating look at the use of food in Broadway musicals to reflect story, character, and atmosphere, including food as a symbol which provides short-cut information to the audience about the plot. This banquet of a book even includes recipes, and is a wonderful treat for gourmands, Broadway and otherwise.