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16%OFFJessamyn Neuhaus - Manly Meals and Mom´s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America - 9781421405841 - V9781421405841
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Manly Meals and Mom´s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America

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Description for Manly Meals and Mom´s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24, 17 black & white halftones, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JFCV; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive and piquant analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly uncovering 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405841
SKU
V9781421405841
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About Jessamyn Neuhaus
Jessamyn Neuhaus is an associate professor of U.S. history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the author of Housework and Housewives in Modern American Advertising: Married to the Mop.

Reviews for Manly Meals and Mom´s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
Have you ever wondered why women's cooking tends to be tired and routine, while men can make culinary magic with hotdogs, omelettes, and fried potatoes? Or why juicy steaks are man-food, while dainty salads are for women? These stereotypes may sit like a rock in the belly, but the message has been reinforced over the past century in American cookbooks, ... Read more

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