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Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
✍️ Neuhaus, Jessamyn
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📝 Description: Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.
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Jessamyn Neuhaus offers an enlightening examination of modern American gender and food history using cookbooks as primary cultural artifacts. It is candidly not suited for readers searching for practical kitchen techniques, standard culinary instruction, or casual weekend reading recipes. Instead, it targets an audience eager for serious academic and cultural analysis of domestic history. Those looking for lighthearted culinary memoirs or contemporary lifestyle guides will likely find the historical focus too dense. For the right reader, however, it provides a deeply rewarding look into how the kitchen became a battleground for modern American identity.
