{"product_id":"manly-meals-and-moms-home-cooking-cookbooks-and-gender-in-modern-america","title":"Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessamyn Neuhaus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2003-07-28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Fannie Farmer Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eManly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeuhaus's in-depth survey of these cookbooks questions the supposedly straightforward lessons about food preparation they imparted. While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readers--mainly white, middle-class women--into effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy, not drudgery, in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Bracken's 1960 cookbook, \u003ci\u003eThe I Hate to Cook Book\u003c\/i\u003e, attests to the limitations of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of bachelor cookbooks aimed at \"the man in the kitchen\" and the biases they display about male and female abilities, tastes, and responsibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine; the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens; and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s. More than a history of the cookbook, \u003ci\u003eManly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801871252\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.34922904344 Pounds, Width: 1.16 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jessamyn Neuhaus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53112032788787,"sku":"9780801871252","price":61.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/manly-meals-and-moms-home-cooking-cookbooks-and-gender-in-modern-america","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}