Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race

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Summary: An examination of how cooking has shaped women's roles
Review: Kitchen Culture in America provides a review of popular representations of food, gender and race and uses everything from television to ads and magazines to examine how women's roles have been shaped by the practice of consuming and making meals. From 1895 to 1970, this provides examples which argue that 'kitchen culture' instructs women in acceptable social behavior patterns.