An edition of Perfection salad (1986)

Perfection salad

women and cooking at the turn of the century

By Laura Shapiro

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Publish Date

1986

Publisher

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Language

eng

Pages

280

Description:

"Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors' widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History, Study and teaching, Home economics, Cookery, Nutrition, Diet, Cooking, Cooking, american, Cooking, study and teaching, Home economics, study and teaching, Cooking, history, Home economics, history, Nutrition, study and teaching

Places: United States