Secret ingredients race, gender, and class at the dinner table / [electronic resource] :
Sherrie A. Inness.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.
- 246 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Cookbooks--Social aspects. Social norms. Cooking--Social aspects.