Something from the Oven : Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

English

ISBN: 0670871540

EAN: 9780670871544

Category: Cooking / General

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 03/01/2004

Synopsis: In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro?author of the classic Perfection Salad?recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Faced with convincing homemakers that foxhole food could make it in the dining room, the food industry put forth the marketing notion that cooking was hard; opening cans, on the other hand, wasn?t. But women weren?t so easily convinced by the canned and plastic-wrapped concoctions and a battle for both the kitchen and the true definition of homemaker ensued. Beautifully written and full of wry observation, this is a fun, illuminating, and definitely easy-to-digest look back at a crossroads in American cooking.

Awards: IACP Crystal Whisk Awards – null 

Something from the Oven : Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.16 inches

Width: 6.3 inches

Length: 9.36 inches

Weight: 20.85 oz

Pages: 336