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Article: Neuhaus, Jessamyn Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- September 22, 2003
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 344 pp., $42.95, ISBN 0-8018-7125-5 Publication Date: July 2003
Jessamyn Neuhaus, an assistant professor of history at Denison University, offers an engaging analysis of the construction of gender though cookbooks, beginning with the publication of the first American cookbook in 1796.
Neuhaus begins with an overview of how cookbooks evolved over time, pointing out that not until the eighteenth century did cookbooks begin to target audiences other than professional chefs or the very rich. She then moves into a discussion of the impact of domestic science and reform movements on cookery. Neuhaus colorfully tells ...