Jessamyn Neuhaus - Manly Meals and Moms Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
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From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by todays celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In Manly Meals and Moms Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive and piquant analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly uncovering the cultural assumptions and anxietiesparticularly about women and domesticitythey contain.
Neuhauss in-depth survey of these cookbooks questions the supposedly straightforward lessons about food preparation they imparted. While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readersmainly white, middle-class womeninto effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy, not drudgery, in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Brackens 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cook Book, attests to the limitations of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of bachelor cookbooks aimed at the man in the kitchen and the biases they display about male and female abilities, tastes, and responsibilities.
Neuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine; the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens; and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s. More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Moms Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.
An engaging analysis . . . Neuhaus provides a rich and well-researched cultural history of American gender roles through her clever use of cookbooks. Sarah Eppler Janda, History: Reviews of New Books
With sound scholarship and a focus on prescriptive food literature, Manly Meals makes an original and useful contribution to our understanding of how gender roles are institutionalized and perpetuated. Warren Belasco, senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
An excellent addition to the history of womens roles in America, as well as to the history of cookbooks. Choice
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