Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America Book

In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro?author of the classic Perfection Salad?recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Faced with convincing homemakers that foxhole food could make it in the dining room, the food industry put forth the marketing notion that cooking was hard; opening cans, on the other hand, wasn?t. But women weren?t so easily convinced by the canned and plastic-wrapped concoctions and a battle for both the kitchen and the true definition of homemaker ensued. Beautifully written and full of wry observation, this is a fun, illuminating, and definitely easy-to-digest look back at a crossroads in American cooking.Read More

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  • 0670871540
  • 9780670871544
  • Laura Shapiro
  • 1 March 2004
  • Viking Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
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