Something from the oven : reinventing dinner in 1950s America

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Label

Something from the oven : reinventing dinner in 1950s America

Title remainder

reinventing dinner in 1950s America

Statement of responsibility

Laura Shapiro

Title variation

Something from the oven

Title variation remainder

reinventing dinner in 1950s America

Creator

• Shapiro, Laura
• trueShapiro, Laura

Subject

• trueCooking, American -- History -- 20th century
• trueFood writing -- History and microhistory
• true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
• trueWomen cooks -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Large type books
• trueConvenience foods -- History

Genre

• trueFood writing

Language

eng

Summary

In the fifties, we're always told, the food industry barged into the American kitchen, waving TV dinners, and destroyed home cooking. Not so fast, Shapiro says. As she reveals, women refused many of the new convenience foods. Fish sticks they accepted, but not ham sticks. Canned peaches, yes; canned hamburgers, no. The industry people hired psychologists to help them combat such resistance; the women's magazines, fond of their advertisers, told readers how, by splashing some sherry over the frozen peas, they could still make dinner look as though they had cooked it. The book is very funny, and also subtle

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

641.5973/082/09045

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TX649.A1

LC item number

S5323 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult