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Article: (En)gendering cooking.(A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women told through Food, Recipes and Remembrances)(Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America)(Book Review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- January 1, 2005
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Laura Schenone, A THOUSAND YEARS OVER A HOT STOVE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN TOLD THROUGH FOOD, RECIPES AND REMEMBRANCES. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003 (cloth). 412p. bibl. index. $35.00, ISBN 0-393-01671-4; pap., $18.95, ISBN 0-393-32627-6.
Jessamyn Neuhaus, MANLY MEALS AND MOM'S HOME COOKING: COOKBOOKS AND GENDER IN MODERN AMERICA. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (cloth). 336p. notes. bibl. index. $42.95, ISBN 0-8018-7125-5.
In her preface to A Thousand Years over a Hot Stove, Laura Schenone muses, "I have days in my very own kitchen when I am a high priestess of life" (p.xv). She then confesses,
On some days I ...