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Perfection Salad
Laura Shapiro
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Overview
Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins? Green-and-white luncheons? Chemistry in the kitchen? This entertaining and erudite social history, now in its fourth paperback edition, tells the remarkable story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. In Perfection Salad, Laura Shapiro investigates a band of passionate but ladylike reformers at the turn of the twentieth century—including Fannie Farmer of the Boston Cooking School—who were determined to modernize the American diet through a "scientific" approach to cooking. Shapiro's fascinating tale shows why we think the way we do about food today.
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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2008-10-02
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- Cooking / Regional & Cultural / American / General, Cooking / Methods / General, Cooking / History, History / General, History / United States / General, House & Home / General, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies
- ISBN-13
- 9780520257382
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