by Ruth Cowen From the publisher: Alexis Soyer (1810-1858) was a working-class Frenchman from an unremarkable town north-west of Paris, but his exceptional cooking skills and ebullient personality turned him […]
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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
by Ruth Schwartz Cowan From the publisher: In this classic work of women’s history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz […]
Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
edited by Sherrie A. Inness From the publisher: At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those […]
Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Homes
by Elizabeth Collins Cromley From the publisher: Blending architectural and social history with the necessity—and the passion—for food, this engaging new book attempts to understand the development of the American […]
The history of the refrigerator
William C. Durant started the Frigidaire Company in 1918 to mass-produce refrigerators based on the invention of a self-contained refrigerator, with a compressor on the bottom of the cabinet. In […]
Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking
by Jessica B. Harris From the publisher: Cajun, Creole, and Caribbean dishes all have their roots in the cooking of West and Central Africa; the peanuts, sweet potatoes, rice, cassava, […]