Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryvolume 24 by Shapiro, Laura

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Volume 24 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520257382)

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Format: Paperback
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryvolume 24 by Shapiro, Laura

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Volume 24

$29.95
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryvolume 24 by Shapiro, Laura

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Volume 24

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Laura Shapiro
ISBN-10: 0520257383
ISBN-13: 9780520257382
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2008
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.56w x 0.70d
By Laura Shapiro
By Laura Shapiro
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Laura Shapiro was on staff at Newsweek and is a contributor to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet. She is the author of Julia Child and Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.

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