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Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century
- Title
- Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century / Laura Shapiro ; introduction by Michael Stern.
- Author
- Shapiro, Laura.
- Publication
- New York : Modern Library, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TX173 .S44 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 274 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors' widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Modern Library food
- Uniform Title
- Modern Library food
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-267) and index.
- Contents
- Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins -- Drudgery divine -- And the kitchen becomes the workshop of the skies -- Better ways, lighter burdens, more wholesome results -- Perfection salad -- The mother of level measurements -- Whoever knew a dyspeptic to be a Christian? -- Foes in our own household -- An absolutely new product -- A leaf or two of lettuce.
- ISBN
- 0375756655
- 9780375756658
- LCCN
- 00061292
- OCLC
- ocm44775448
- 44775448
- SCSB-1213391
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library