Something From The Oven: Reinventing Dinner In 1950s America by Laura Shapiro

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  • ISBN 10 0670871540
  • ISBN 13 9780670871544
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  • Published Mar 30 2004
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Viking Penguin

Publishers Text

2005 IACP Award Finalist - Literary Food Writing Category

In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro--author of Perfection Salad--recounts the pre-packaged 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.

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