Look who's cooking : the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century / Jennifer Rachel Dutch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutch, Jennifer Rachel, 1977- author.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Series:

Folklore studies in a multicultural world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food.

History.

Convenience foods.

Cooking--Social aspects.

Cooking.

United States.

Cooking--Social aspects--United States.

Food habits--United States--History.

Food habits.

Convenience foods--United States.

Food--United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 183 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

Summary:

"Home cooking is a multibillion dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity-chef-branded goods even as self-described "foodies" seek authenticity by pickling, preserving, and canning foods in their own home kitchens. Despite this, claims that "no one has time to cook anymore" are common, lamenting the slow extinction of traditional American home cooking in the twenty-first century. In Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century, author Jennifer Rachel Dutch explores the death of home cooking, revealing how modern changes transformed cooking at home from an odious chore into a concept imbued with deep meanings associated with home, family, and community. Drawing on a wide array of texts--cookbooks, advertising, YouTube videos, and more--Dutch analyzes the many manifestations of traditional cooking in America today. She argues that what is missing from the discourse around home cooking is an understanding of skills and recipes as a form of folklore. Dutch's research reveals that home cooking is a powerful vessel that Americans fill with meaning because it represents both the continuity of the past and adaptability to the present. Home cooking is about much more than what is for dinner; it's about forging a connection to the past, displaying the self in the present, and leaving a lasting legacy for the future."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In the kitchen with grandma

From great grandma's hearth to mom's microwave: the transformation of American home cooking

Just like grandma never made: lamenting the loss of home cooking in America

From grandma's recipe box: how cookbooks sell comfort and help create America's consumer cooks

Brand name "grandma": selling tradition to American home cooks

Grandma's gone global: home-cooking traditions move from the kitchenette to the internet

In the kitchen with ... dad? Continuity and change in twenty-first-century home cooking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Dutch, Jennifer Rachel, 1977- Look who's cooking.

ISBN:

9781496818751

149681875X

9781496821126

1496821122

OCLC:

1022075988

Publisher Number:

99978858015