Ebook {Epub PDF} Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro

 · Big Business waged an all-out campaign to win the allegiance of American housewives, but most women were suspicious of the new foods—and the make-believe cooking they entailed. With sharp insight and good humor, Laura Shapiro shows how the ensuing battle helped shape the way we eat today, and how the clash in the kitchen reverberated elsewhere in the house as women struggled Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in s America [Shapiro, Laura] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Something from the Cited by:  · Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in s America: Author: Laura Shapiro: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, ISBN: X, 3/5(11).

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In Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in s America, Laura Shapiro presents a riveting account of how the foods we eat changed during the 's and the steps taken by the food industry to convince American consumers that it was better, and more convenient to eat canned, frozen, or dehydrated prepackaged foods over their fresh counterparts. Many of the packaged foods that graced American tables in the 's were a direct off-shoot of products developed for use by soldiers in the. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in s America: Author: Laura Shapiro: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Viking, Original from: Indiana University: Digitized: Jun 9, ISBN. In her fascinating and imminently readable new book Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in s America, Laura Shapiro details a pivotal chapter in the popular history of American cooking: the creation of pre-packaged foods.