Secret ingredients : race, gender, and class at the dinner table / / Sherrie A. Inness.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
:
TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:246 p.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 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.