Manly meals and mom's home cooking: cookbooks and gender in modern America

2004; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 41; Issue: 05 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.41-2783

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Jessamyn Neuhaus,

Tópico(s)

Culinary Culture and Tourism

Resumo

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Purpose of a Cookery BookPART ONE A Most Enchanting Occupation: Cookbooks in Early and Modern America, 1796-1941One From Family Receipts to Fannie Farmer: Cookbooks in the United States, 1796-1920 Two Recipes for a New Era: Food Trends, Consumerism, Cooks, and Cookbooks Three Is Fun: Women's Home Cookery As Art, Science, and Necessity Four Ladylike Lunches and Manly Meals: The Gendering of Food and CookingPART TWO You are First and Foremost Homemakers: Cookbooks and the Second World WarFive Lima Loaf and Butter Stretchers Six Ways and Means for War Days: The Cookbook-Scrapbook Compiled by Maude Reid Seven Hand That Cuts the Ration Coupon May Win the War: Women's Home-Cooked PatriotismPART THREE The Cooking Mystique: Cookbooks and Gender, 1945-1963Eight The Betty Crocker Era Nine King of the Kitchen: Food and Cookery Instruction for Men Ten The Most Important Meal: Women's Home Cooking, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks Eleven A Necessary Bore: Contradictions in the Cooking MystiqueConclusion From Julia Child to Cooking.comNotes Essay on Sources Index

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