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.