Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America, (Paperback)

from keywestnan

Excellent, accessible history of cooking and food industry developments in the 1950s -- placed in the context of social change (postwar suburban householding but also women's increasing role in the workplace) -- all of it anticipating the near simultaneous debuts of Julia Child and Betty Friedan....

from kd9

When I had collected over 700 cookbooks, somehow acquiring another book full of just recipes no longer seemed as thrilling as it once had. I turned my attention to food history and food culture and have started collecting books that are more essays than recipes. This is an excellent book for thos...

from mstrust

From the difficulties of getting consumers to buy frozen dinners, the rise of food advice newspaper columns and the emergence of famous female cooks who specialized in home cooking, as opposed to the trained male chefs showing how to do professional dishes who had been nearly the only experts unt...

from keywestnan

Excellent, accessible history of cooking and food industry developments in the 1950s -- placed in the context of social change (postwar suburban householding but also women's increasing role in the workplace) -- all of it anticipating the near simultaneous debuts of Julia Child and Betty Friedan....

from kristenn

This book is basically about the classic 1950s+ convenience meals and how what was marketed (and thus what we remember) doesn't entirely match what really happened. Women kept making things from scratch (and enjoying it) at a higher rate than pop culture history has you believe. She does a ton of...