Secret ingredients : race, gender, and class at the dinner table / / Sherrie A. Inness
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Inness Sherrie A
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| Titolo: |
Secret ingredients : race, gender, and class at the dinner table / / Sherrie A. Inness
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 394.1/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cookbooks - Social aspects |
| Social norms | |
| Cooking - Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : recipes for revolution -- 1. "34,000,000,000 work-hours" saved : convenience foods and mom's home cooking -- 2. "Unnatural, unclean, and filthy" : Chinese-American cooking literature confronting racism in the 1950s -- 3. "All those leftovers are hard on the family's morale" : rebellion in Peg Bracken's The I hate to cook book -- 4. "Boredom is quite out of the picture" : women's natural foods cookbooks and social change -- 5. "More American than apple pie" : modern African-American cookbooks fighting white stereotypes -- 6. "You can't get trashier" : white trash cookbooks and social class -- 7. "Dining on grass and shrubs" : making vegan food sexy -- 8. Thin is not in : Two Fat Ladies and gender stereotypes on the food network. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950's, to the 1980's rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990's, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Secret ingredients |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36466-5 |
| 9786611364663 | |
| 1-4039-8105-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816942403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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