Kitchen Culture in America

Introduction: Thinking Food, Thinking Gender -Sherrie A. Inness 1. Bonbons, Lemon Drops, and Oh Henry! Bars: Candy Consumer Culture and the Construction of Gender, 1890-1920 -Jane Dusselier 2. Campbell's Soup and the Long Shelf Life of Traditional Gender Roles -Katherine Parkin 3. "Now Then-Who Said Biscuits?" The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905-1953 -Alice A. Deck 4. The Joy of Sex Instruction: Women and Cooking in Marital Sex Manuals, 1920-1963 -Jessamyn Neuhaus 5. "The Enchantment of Mixing-Spoons": Cooking Lessons for Boys and Girls -Sherrie A. Inness 6. Home Cooking: Boston Baked Beans and Sizzling Rice Soup as Recipes for Pride and Prejudice -Janet Theophano 7. Processed Foods from Scratch: Cooking for a Family in the 1950s -Erika Endrijonas 8. Freeze Frames: Frozen Foods and Memories of the Postwar American Family -Christopher Holmes Smith 9. She Also Cooks: Gender, Domesticity, and Public Life in Oakland, California, 1957-1959 -Jessica Weiss 10. "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertemae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora -Doris Witt 11. "If I Were a Voodoo Priestess": Women's Culinary Autobiographies -Traci Kelly