Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Laura Shapiro
304 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0375756655
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Language: English
Publish: February 20, 2001
CookingFeminismFoodFood HistoryFood WritingFoodieGenderHistoryNonfictionSociology
Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today.