A taste of power : food and American identities /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| 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.