Secret Ingredients
eBook - PDF

Secret Ingredients

Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Secret Ingredients

Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

About this book

A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Recipes for Revolution
  5. 1 “34,000,000,000 Work-Hours” Saved: Convenience Foods and Mom’s Home Cooking
  6. 2 “Unnatural, Unclean, and Filthy”: Chinese-American Cooking Literature Confronting Racism in the 1950s
  7. 3 “All Those Leftovers Are Hard on the Family’s Morale”: Rebellion in Peg Bracken’s The I Hate to Cook Book
  8. 4 “Boredom Is Quite Out of the Picture”: Women’s Natural Foods Cookbooks and Social Change
  9. 5 “More American than Apple Pie”: Modern African-American Cookbooks Fighting White Stereotypes
  10. 6 “You Can’t Get Trashier”: White Trash Cookbooks and Social Class
  11. 7 “Dining on Grass and Shrubs”: Making Vegan Food Sexy
  12. 8 Thin Is Not In: Two Fat Ladies and Gender Stereotypes on the Food Network
  13. Notes
  14. Works Cited
  15. Index