Something from the oven : reinventing dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro.
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin, 2005Description: xxiii, 306 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN: 014303491XSubject(s): Cookery, American -- History -- 20th century | Convenience foods -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Nineteen-fifties | Women cooks -- United States -- History -- 20th centurySummary: This is a very readable social history of cooking from the immediate post-war years to the early 1960s in the United States. The personalities of the cookbook are discussed including Poppy Cannon, Alice B. Toklas, Peg Bracken, Betty Crocker and Julia Child.
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Includes bibliography (p.[283]-294) and index.
This is a very readable social history of cooking from the immediate post-war years to the early 1960s in the United States. The personalities of the cookbook are discussed including Poppy Cannon, Alice B. Toklas, Peg Bracken, Betty Crocker and Julia Child.
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