Perfection Salad

Informationen zum Autor Laura Shapiro was on staff at Newsweek and is a contributor to the New York Times! Rolling Stone! Granta! and Gourmet. She is the author of Julia Child and Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. Klappentext Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins? Green-and-white luncheons? Chemistry in the kitchen? This entertaining and erudite social history! now in its fourth paperback edition! tells the remarkable story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. In "Perfection Salad! "Laura Shapiro investigates a band of passionate but ladylike reformers at the turn of the twentieth century--including Fannie Farmer of the Boston Cooking School--who were determined to modernize the American diet through a "scientific" approach to cooking. Shapiro's fascinating tale shows why we think the way we do about food today. Zusammenfassung Features the story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. This work investigates a band of reformers at the turn of the twentieth century who were determined to modernize the American diet through a 'scientific' approach to cooking. Inhaltsverzeichnis PROLOGUE: Toasted Marshmallows Stuffed with Raisins  ONE: Drudgery Divine  TWO: And the Kitchen Becomes the Workshop of the Skies  THREE: Better Ways, Lighter Burdens, More Wholesome Results  FOUR: Perfection Salad  FIVE: The Mother of Level Measurements  SIX: Whoever Knew a Dyspeptic to Be a Christian?  SEVEN: Foes in Our Own Household  EIGHT: An Absolutely New Product  CONCLUSION: A Leaf or Two of Lettuce  Afterword  Acknowledgments  Notes  Bibliography  Index...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Shapiro, Shapiro Laura
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2008
• EAN: 9780520257382
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25738-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 212 mm x 20 mm
• Series: California Studies in Food & Culture; California Studies in Food and; California Studies in Food and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; USA, COOKING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Women, Cookery / food & drink etc, Food & society, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Cultural studies: food and society, Cookery / food and drink / food writing