A taste of power : food and American identities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vester, Katharina (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 59.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.