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Author Inness, Sherrie A.

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

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.

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Description 246 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cookbooks -- Social aspects.
Social norms.
Cooking -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1403981051
1403970084

 
    
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