Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century / Laura Shapiro ; introduction by Michael Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Laura.

Series:

Modern Library food

Modern Library food series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home economics--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Home economics.

Cooking--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Cooking.

Cooking--Study and teaching.

History.

Home economics--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Modern Library paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2001.

Summary:

Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors' wide-spread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today. This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Stern, who, with Jane Stern, is the author of Gourmet magazine's popular column "Roadfood" and the book Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A.

Contents:

Prologue: Toasted Marshmallows Stuffed with Raisins 3

1 Drudgery Divine 11

2 And the Kitchen Becomes the Workshop of the Skies 32

3 Better Ways, Lighter Burdens, More Wholesome Results 44

4 Perfection Salad 67

5 The Mother of Level Measurements 100

6 Whoever Knew a Dyspeptic to Be a Christian? 120

7 Foes in Our Own Household 160

8 An Absolutely New Product 181

Conclusion: A Leaf or Two of Lettuce 205.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0375756655

OCLC:

44775448