Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in F...
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 24)
Book Details
- Author
- Laura Shapiro
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780520257382
- ISBN-10
- 0520257383
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ISBN: 0520257383
Author: Shapiro, Laura
Condition: New
Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins? Green-and-white luncheons? Chemistry in the kitchen? This entertaining and erudite social history, now in its fourth paperback edition, tells the remarkable story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. In Perfection Salad, Laura Shapiro investigates a band of passionate but ladylike reformers at the turn of the twentieth century-including Fannie Farmer of the Boston Cooking School-who were determined to modernize the American diet through a "scientific" approach to cooking. Shapiro's fascinating tale shows why we think the way we do about food today.
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