ISBN:
9780520284975
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food and Culture Ser. v.59
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food and Culture v.59
Parallel Title:
Print version A Taste of Power : Food and American Identities
DDC:
394.120973
Keywords:
Food Social aspects
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Cooking, American History
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Food habits History
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Cookbooks Social aspects
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Cookbooks - Social aspects - United States
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Food habits ; United States ; History
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Food ; Social aspects ; United States
;
Cooking, American ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A Taste of Power examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. Culinary writing has helped shape dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect wife and mother.In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; A Taste of Power; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "For All Grades of Life": The Making of a Republican Cuisine; In Search of an American Cuisine: National Identity and Food; "All My Bones Were Made of Indian Corn": Maize, Revolution, and Democracy; An American Painter's Palate: Raphaelle Peale's Food Still Lifes; Domestic Virtue and Citizenship in the Work of Lydia Maria Child; "Bread of Our Mothers": Sylvester Graham and the Health of the Nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cooking Contest: Regional, Transnational, and Class-Based Cuisines in the Antebellum United StatesA Republican Cuisine; 2 "Wolf in Chef's Clothing": Manly Cooking and Negotiations of Ideal Masculinity; Why the Way to the Heart Is Through the Stomach; "Men, Meet the Kitchen": Inventing Manly Cooking; Flesh, Blood, and Hemingway: Campfire Cooking and Rugged Masculinities; Hard-Boiled Cooking, Femmes Fatales, and American Noir; Silver Spoons in Their Hands: The Rise of the Gourmet; Playboys in the Kitchen: Manly Cooking in the 1950s and 1960s; "Will Cook for Sex": Recipes for Manly Cooking
Description / Table of Contents:
3 "The Difference Is Spreading": Recipes for Lesbian LivingServing Heteronormativity-Queering the Menu; Labor of Love: Gender Normativity and Contradictions in Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks; Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's Household Advice; "La Cuisine c'est la Femme": The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book; What Lesbians Eat: Identity, Food, and Same-Sex Desire; How to Cook with Lesbians; Digestif: Power, Resistance, and Food; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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