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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Shapiro, Laura

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 014303491X
ISBN13: 9780143034919
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 29 2005
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)

In this captivating blend of culinary history and popular culture, the award-winning author of Perfection Salad shows us what happened when the food industry elbowed its way into the kitchen after World War II, brandishing canned hamburgers, frozen baked beans, and instant piecrusts. Big Business waged an all-out campaign to win the allegiance of American housewives, but most women were suspicious of the new foods--and the make-believe cooking they entailed. With sharp insight and good humor, Laura Shapiro shows how the ensuing battle helped shape the way we eat today, and how the clash in the kitchen reverberated elsewhere in the house as women struggled with marriage, work, and domesticity. This unconventional history overturns our notions about the '50s and offers new thinking on some of its fascinating figures, including Poppy Cannon, Shirley Jackson, Julia Child, and Betty Friedan.

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