Made From Scratch: Reclaiming The Pleasures of The American Hearth by Jean Zimmerman

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  • ISBN 10 0684869594
  • ISBN 13 9780684869599
  • Published Apr 01 2003
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Publisher Free Press

Publishers Text

An acclaimed journalist's provocative new work, an affirmation of domesticity and its proud history, explores how the traditions of home and hearth--as our grandmothers knew them--are close to extinction and shows the myriad ways women are reconnecting to these time-honored customs.


Made from Scratch tells the story of the unsung heroines of the hearth, exploring the history of female domesticity, charting the cultural changes it has weathered, and visiting with modern-day homemakers. Whether baking a birthday cake from scratch, cherishing heirlooms from the past, cooking a soup, or darning a sock, this book is about the ways home traditions, passed from one generation to the next, preserve our souls--especially in our ever more processed, synthetic world where buy home-made goods and fail to see the irony in that.