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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818608003321

Autore

Neuhaus Jessamyn

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-4214-0732-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

641.5

Soggetti

Cooking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. "A most enchanting occupation" : cookbooks in early and modern America, 1796-1941 -- pt. 2. "You are first and foremost homemakers" : cookbooks and the Second World War -- pt. 3. The cooking mystique : cookbooks and gender, 1945-1963.

Sommario/riassunto

More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.