Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America

by Jessamyn Neuhaus

Book Overview

From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook 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 Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive and piquant analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801871255
• ISBN13: 9780801871252
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"