TY - BOOK AU - Neuhaus,Jessamyn TI - Manly meals and mom's home cooking: cookbooks and gender in modern America SN - 0801871255 : HRD AV - TX714 .N52 2003 U1 - 641.5 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Cooking N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-323) and index; Part 1: "A most enchanting occupation": Cookbooks in early and modern America, 1796-1941 -- From family receipts to Fannie Farmer: cookbooks in the United States, 1796-1920 -- Recipes for a new era: food trends, consumerism, cooks and cookbooks -- "Cooking is Fun": Women's home cookery as art, science and necessity -- Ladylike lunches and manly meals: the gendering of food and cooking -- Part 2: "You are first and foremost homemakers": Cookbooks and the second World War -- Lime loaf and butter stretchers -- "Ways and means for war day": The cookbook-scrapbook compiled by Maude Reid -- "The hand that cuts the ration coupon may win the war": Women's home-cooked patriotism -- Part 3: The cooking mystique: Cookbooks and gender, 1945-1963 -- The Betty Crocker era -- "King of the kitchen": Food and cookery instruction for men -- The most important meal: Women's home cooking, domestic ideology, and cookbooks -- "A necessary bore": Contradictions in the cooking mystique ER -