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Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

Zimmerman, Jean

Paperback

General ParentingGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0684869608
ISBN13: 9780684869605
Publisher: Free Press
Published: Jul 7 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
In this stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of women's work, acclaimed journalist Jean Zimmerman poignantly addresses the tug that many Americans of the twenty-first century feel between our professional and private lives. With sharp wit and intelligence, she offers evidence that in the current domestic vacuum, we still long for a richer home life -- a paradox visible in the Martha Stewart phenomenon, in the continuing popularity of women's service magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, and Ladies' Home Journal -- whose combined circulation of over 17 million is nearly twice the combined circulation of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report -- and the booming business of restorations, where onlookers get a hands-on view of domestic life as it flourished in past centuries. This book is about the ways home traditions passed from one generation to the next -- baking a birthday cake from scratch, cherishing family heirlooms, or discovering the satisfaction of piecing a quilt -- sustain our souls, especially in our ever more processed, synthetic world, where we buy homemade goods and fail to see the irony in that.

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