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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other editionsSomething from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A lively narrative history of how American home cooking changed in the 1950s — from "anti-cooking" marketing to Julia Child. In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro — author of the classic Perfection Salad — recounts the prepackaged 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. Review:"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....[V]ery funny, and also subtle." The New Yorker Review:"[A] well-researched history of the relationship between the American woman's domestic role as family cook and the American food industry....[H]ighly readable." Library Journal Review:"Shapiro's graceful, flowing prose makes this history of both cooking and women utterly compelling." Booklist Review:"Entertaining and well researched, but disjointed." Kirkus Reviews Synopsis:In this delightfully surprising history, Shapiro — author of the classic Perfection Salad — recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Do Women Like to Cook? xvii 1 The Housewif‛s Dream 1 2 Something from the Oven 41 3 Do‛t Check Your Brains at the Kitchen Door 85 4 I Hate to Cook 129 5 Is She Real? 169 6 Now and Forever 211 Epilogue 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 285 Permissions and Credits 295 Index 297
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