Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: thinking food/thinking gender / Sherrie A. Inness --
Bonbons, lemon drops, and Oh Henry! bars: candy, consumer culture, and the construction of gender, 1895-1920 / Jane Dusselier --
Campbell's soup and the long shelf life of traditional gender roles / Katherine Parkin --
"Now then, who said biscuits?" The Black woman cook as fetish in American advertising, 1905-1953 / Alice A. Deck --
The joy of sex instruction: women cooking in marital sex manuals, 1920-1963 / Jessamyn Neuhaus --
"The enchantment of mixing-spoons": cooking lessons for girls and boys / Sherrie A. Inness --
Home cooking: Boston baked beans and sizzling rice soup as recipes for pride and prejudice / Janet Theophano --
Processed foods from scratch: cooking for a family in the 1950s / Erika Endrijonas --
Freeze frames: frozen foods and memories of the postwar American family / Christopher Holmes Smith --
She also cooks: gender, domesticity, and public life in Oakland, California, 1957-1959 / Jessica Weiss --
"My kitchen was the world": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora / Doris Witt --
"If I were a voodoo priestess": women's culinary autobiographies / Traci Marie Kelly.
