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Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America / Jessamyn Neuhaus.
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Neuhaus, Jessamyn
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English
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Description
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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TX714 .N52 2003
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Cooking
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United States
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Sex role
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Summary note
"In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers an analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly examining the cultural assumptions and anxieties - particularly about women and domesticity - they contain." "Neuhaus's in-depth survey of these cookbooks questions the supposedly straightforward lessons about food preparation they imparted. While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readers - mainly white, middle-class women - into effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy, not drudgery, in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Bracken's The I Hate to Cook Book (1960) attests to the limits of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of cookbooks for bachelors, aimed at "the man in the kitchen," and the biases they display about male and female abilities, tastes, and responsibilities." "Neuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine; the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens; and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s. More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an account of gender and food in modern America."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-323) and index.
Contents
Part 1: "A most enchanting occupation": Cookbooks in early and modern America, 1796-1941
From family receipts to Fannie Farmer: cookbooks in the United States, 1796-1920
Recipes for a new era: food trends, consumerism, cooks and cookbooks
"Cooking is Fun": Women's home cookery as art, science and necessity
Ladylike lunches and manly meals: the gendering of food and cooking
Part 2: "You are first and foremost homemakers": Cookbooks and the second World War
Lime loaf and butter stretchers
"Ways and means for war day": The cookbook-scrapbook compiled by Maude Reid
"The hand that cuts the ration coupon may win the war": Women's home-cooked patriotism
Part 3: The cooking mystique: Cookbooks and gender, 1945-1963
The Betty Crocker era
"King of the kitchen": Food and cookery instruction for men
The most important meal: Women's home cooking, domestic ideology, and cookbooks
"A necessary bore": Contradictions in the cooking mystique.
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ISBN
0801871255 ((hardcover))
9780801871252 ((hardcover))
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2002006465
OCLC
49743380
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99806440760
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