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Something from the Oven

Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Something from the Oven( )
Author: Shapiro, Laura
ISBN:978-0-670-87154-4
Publication Date:Mar 2004
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Viking Adult
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

In this delightfully surprising history, Laura Shapiro—author of the classic Perfection Salad—recounts the prepackaged dreams that bombarded American kitchens during the fifties. Faced with convincing homemakers that foxhole food could make it in the dining room, the food industry put forth the marketing notion that cooking was hard; opening cans, on the other hand, wasn’t. But women weren’t so easily convinced by the canned and plastic-wrapped concoctions and a battle for both the...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Cooking / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.3 x 9.36 x 1.16 Inches
Book Weight:1.3 Pounds



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