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

By: Inness, Sherrie AContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006Description: 246 pSubject(s): Cookbooks -- Social aspects | Social norms | Cooking -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 394.1/2 LOC classification: GT2855 | .I66 2006Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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