Secret Ingredients

Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781349531646
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2015 9781349531646
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A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms.

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ISBN13:9781349531646
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introductions: Recipes for Revolution '34,000,000,000 Work-Hours' Saved: Convenience Foods and Mom's Home Cooking 'Unnatural, Unclean, and Filthy': Chinese American Cooking Literature Confronting Racism in the 1950s 'All Those Leftovers Are Hard on the Family Morale': Rebellion in Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book 'Boredom is Quite Out Of the Picture': Women's Natural Foods Cookbooks and Social Change 'More American Than Apple Pie': Modern African-American Cookbooks Fighting White Stereotypes 'You Can't Get Trashier': White Trash Cookbooks and Social Class 'Dining on Grass and Shrubs': Making Vegan Food Sexy Thin is Not In: Two Fat Ladies and Gender Stereotypes on the Food Network

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