Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
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Neuhaus (history, Denison U.) analyzes the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and 1960s, arguing that the cookbooks of the middle class, particularly from 1920 through the early 1960s, played a significant role in shaping ideas about masculine appetites and "mom's home cooking" that remain powerful today. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "The Purpose of a Cookery Book"1Pt. 1"A Most Enchanting Occupation": Cookbooks in Early and Modern America, 1796-194151From Family Receipts to Fannie Farmer: Cookbooks in the United States, 1796-192072Recipes for a New Era: Food Trends, Consumerism, Cooks, and Cookbooks273"Cooking Is Fun": Women's Home Cookery as Art, Science, and Necessity574Ladylike Lunches and Manly Meals: The Gendering of Food and Cooking73Pt. 2"You Are First and Foremost Homemakers": Cookbooks and the Second World War995Lima Loaf and Butter Stretchers1016"Ways and Means for War Days": The Cookbook-Scrapbook Compiled by Maude Reid1197"The Hand That Cuts the Ration Coupon May Win the War": Women's Home-Cooked Patriotism135Pt. 3The Cooking Mystique: Cookbooks and Gender, 1945-19631618The Betty Crocker Era1639"King of the Kitchen": Food and Cookery Instruction for Men19110The Most Important Meal: Women's Home Cooking, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks21911"A Necessary Bore": Contradictions in the Cooking Mystique239Conclusion: From Julia Child to Cooking.com261Notes271Essay on Sources311Index325
