Screen LibraryLook who's cooking : the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century /
"Home cooking is a multibillion dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity-chef-branded goods even as self-described "foodies"...
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University Press of Mississippi,
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| Publisher Address: | Jackson : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Folklore studies in a multicultural world
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| Summary: |
"Home cooking is a multibillion dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity-chef-branded goods even as self-described "foodies" seek authenticity by pickling, preserving, and canning foods in their own home kitchens. Despite this, claims that "no one has time to cook anymore" are common, lamenting the slow extinction of traditional American home cooking in the twenty-first century. In Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Coo |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 183 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781496821126 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1496821122 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9781496818751 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 149681875X (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | TX645 |
| CLC: | K897.122.5 |
| Call Number: | K897.122.5/D975 |
| Contents: | In the kitchen with grandma -- From great grandma's hearth to mom's microwave: the transformation of American home cooking -- Just like grandma never made: lamenting the loss of home cooking in America -- From grandma's recipe box: how cookbooks sell comfort and help create America's consumer cooks -- Brand name "grandma": selling tradition to American home cooks -- Grandma's gone global: home-cooking traditions move from the kitchenette to the internet -- In the kitchen with ... dad? Continuity and change in twenty-first-century home cooking. |