Dinner roles : American women and culinary culture /

Inness, Sherrie A.,

Dinner roles : American women and culinary culture / Sherrie A. Inness. - x, 225 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Bachelor bait" : men's cookbooks and the male cooking mystique -- enchantment of mixing-spoons : cooking lessons for girls and boys -- Paradise pudding, peach fluff, and prune perfection : dainty dishes and the construction of femininity -- Waffle irons and banana mashers : selling Mrs. Consumer on electric kitchen gadgets -- "Fearsome dishes" : international cooking and orientalism between the wars -- "It's fun being thrifty!" : gendered cooking lessons during the Depression -- Wear this uniform proudly, Mrs. America!" : Rosie the Riveter in the kitchen -- Of casseroles and canned foods : building the happy housewife in the fifties. 1. 2. "The 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

087745762X 9780877457626 0877457638 9780877457633

00053637


Cooking, American
Cooking, American--History

TX715 / .I545 2001

641.59730820904

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