A taste of power food and American identities /
"A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazine...
| Main Author: | Vester, Katharina, |
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| Other Authors: | Ebooks Corporation. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
California studies in food and culture ;
59. Ebook Library (EBL) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- "For all grades of life?" the making of a republican cuisine
- In search of an American cuisine: national identity and food
- "All my bones were made of Indian corn" : maize, revolution, and democracy
- An American painter's palate : Raphaelle Peale's food still lifes
- Domestic virtue and citizenship in Lydia Maria Child
- "Bread of our mothers" : Sylvester Graham and the health of the nation
- Cooking contest : regional, transnational, and class-based cuisines in the Antebellum U.S
- A republican cuisine
- "Wolf in chef's clothing" : manly cooking and negotiations of ideal masculinity
- Why the way to the heart is through the stomach
- "Men, meet the kitchen" : inventing manly cooking
- Flesh, blood, and Hemingway : campfire cooking and rugged masculinities
- Hardboiled cooking, femmes fatales, and American Noir
- Silver Spoons in their hands : the rise of the gourmet
- Playboys in the kitchen: manly cooking in the 1950s and 60s
- "Will cook for sex" : recipes for manly cooking
- "The difference is spreading" : recipes for lesbian living
- "Serving heteronormativity/queering the menu"
- Labor of love : gender-normativity and contradiction in 19th century cookbooks
- Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's household advice
- "La cuisine c'est la femme" : the Alice B. Toklas cook book
- What lesbians eat : identity, food and same-sex desire
- How to cook with lesbians
- Digestif : power, resistance and food.