Secret ingredients : race, gender, and class at the dinner table /

In Secret Ingredients, acclaimed author Sherrie A. Inness exposes how women have used recipes and cooking to challenge the status quo. Hiding within seemingly ordinary cookbooks are revolutionary messages from women about social and cultural norms. Surprising but true, something as mundane as a cook...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Inness, Sherrie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2006.
Temas:
Cooking > Social aspects.
Social norms.
Normes sociales.
Gender studies: women.
Social & cultural history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Society.
Cooking > Social aspects
Social norms
Kookboeken.
Sekserol.
Verenigde Staten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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