Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (HC,2004) 1st Print

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Dust Jacket
Original Language
English
Edition
First Printing
ISBN
9780670871544
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670871540
ISBN-13
9780670871544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5922204

Product Key Features

Book Title
Something from the Oven : Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Methods / Quick & Easy, General, Women's Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Social Science
Author
Laura Shapiro
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-057152
Reviews
“A stylish and witty history of women and food. Shapiro brings distinction to the ordinary as she brilliantly redefines an important period in our recent past.â€� (Barbara Haber, author of From Hardtack to Home Fries ), A stylish and witty history of women and food. Shapiro brings distinction to the ordinary as she brilliantly redefines an important period in our recent past.” (Barbara Haber, author of From Hardtack to Home Fries)
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
641.5973/082/09045
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction: Do Women Like to Cook? xvii 1 The Housewife’s Dream 1 2 Something from the Oven 41 3 Don’t Check Your Brains at the Kitchen Door 85 4 I Hate to Cook 129 5 Is She Real? 169 6 Now and Forever 211 Epilogue 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 285 Permissions and Credits 295 Index 297
Synopsis
In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro—author of the classic Perfection Salad—recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Faced with convincing homemakers that foxhole food could make it in the dining room, the food industry put forth the marketing notion that cooking was hard; opening cans, on the other hand, wasn’t. But women weren’t so easily convinced by the canned and plastic-wrapped concoctions and a battle for both the kitchen and the true definition of homemaker ensued. Beautifully written and full of wry observation, this is a fun, illuminating, and definitely easy-to-digest look back at a crossroads in American cooking.
LC Classification Number
TX649.A1.S53 2004

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