Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24)
Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today....
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Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today. This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Stern, who, with Jane Stern, is the author of Gourmet magazine's popular column Roadfood and the book Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375756658 (0375756655)
Publish date: February 20th 2001
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Feminism,
Sociology,
Womens,
Cooking,
Womens Studies,
Foodie,
Food Writing,
Food History
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