Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories...
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Author: Laura Shapiro
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Language: English
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Shapiro, Laura

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

$47.58

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

$47.58
Author: Laura Shapiro
Format: Paperback
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.

Author: Laura Shapiro
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 03/29/2005
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780143034919
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/22/2005 pg. 32
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 135

About the Author
Award-winning writer Laura Shapiro was at Newsweek for more than fifteen years. The author of Perfection Salad, she has written for many other publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet.

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