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Article: Author Looks at 1950s Revolution in the Kitchen
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- March 31, 2004
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By Judith Weinraub
The Washington Post
Anyone who grew up in America in the last half of the 20th century
takes packaged foods for granted. A supermarket without bottles of
already prepared salad dressings, ready-to-zap frozen meals, dozens
of choices of cake and cookie mixes is unthinkable. But it wasn't
always that way.
Laura Shapiro's fascinating, highly readable book, "Something From
the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America'' (Viking, $24.95)
looks at the forces that not only defined food in that decade -- and
have ever since -- but also the way women defined themselves.
The major landmarks are all there -- the new packaged foods; the
countless magazine articles portraying their ...
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