Jennifer Rachel Dutch
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496818751
- eISBN:
- 9781496818799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818751.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
While critics mourn the death of home cooking based on the rapid changes in cooking practices and kitchen technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first century, a counter-narrative based on the ...
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While critics mourn the death of home cooking based on the rapid changes in cooking practices and kitchen technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first century, a counter-narrative based on the adaptability and innovation of actual home cooking traditions offers hope for continued significance of American home cooking today and in the future.Less
While critics mourn the death of home cooking based on the rapid changes in cooking practices and kitchen technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first century, a counter-narrative based on the adaptability and innovation of actual home cooking traditions offers hope for continued significance of American home cooking today and in the future.
Tracey Deutsch
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469652894
- eISBN:
- 9781469652917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652894.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
History looms large in much recent writing about food, with a particular nostalgia for home cooking. But much of this wistfulness for traditional food carefully prepared at home replicates ...
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History looms large in much recent writing about food, with a particular nostalgia for home cooking. But much of this wistfulness for traditional food carefully prepared at home replicates long-standing efforts to rein in women, argues Tracey Deutsch. Because women still do much of the cooking in American homes, any history of home cooking has to acknowledge the inequalities of work in the home. Deutsch encourages us to look at kitchens and home cooking through the lens of women’s history to see them as places of joy and power, authority and possibility, tradition and resistance.Less
History looms large in much recent writing about food, with a particular nostalgia for home cooking. But much of this wistfulness for traditional food carefully prepared at home replicates long-standing efforts to rein in women, argues Tracey Deutsch. Because women still do much of the cooking in American homes, any history of home cooking has to acknowledge the inequalities of work in the home. Deutsch encourages us to look at kitchens and home cooking through the lens of women’s history to see them as places of joy and power, authority and possibility, tradition and resistance.
Jennifer Rachel Dutch
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496818751
- eISBN:
- 9781496818799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818751.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Despite the rhetoric lamenting the demise of home cooking in the twenty-first century, today’s home cooks infuse the kitchen with meanings that destabilize the critic’s efforts to control the form ...
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Despite the rhetoric lamenting the demise of home cooking in the twenty-first century, today’s home cooks infuse the kitchen with meanings that destabilize the critic’s efforts to control the form and direction of home cooking discourse and practice in the twenty-first century. Today, home cooking remains meaningful because of the home cooks who create its meaning.Less
Despite the rhetoric lamenting the demise of home cooking in the twenty-first century, today’s home cooks infuse the kitchen with meanings that destabilize the critic’s efforts to control the form and direction of home cooking discourse and practice in the twenty-first century. Today, home cooking remains meaningful because of the home cooks who create its meaning.
Ken Albala
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469652894
- eISBN:
- 9781469652917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652894.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Americans have been known to idealize home cooked meals eaten with the family, but the general trend in our history has been to move away from these things. Ken Albala, one of America’s leading food ...
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Americans have been known to idealize home cooked meals eaten with the family, but the general trend in our history has been to move away from these things. Ken Albala, one of America’s leading food historians, makes an impassioned plea for the importance of cooking from scratch, using fresh ingredients, and sharing the food with others, as one of the most meaningful and humane acts we can do. He is cognizant of the fact that cooking is not always easy, nor has it always been voluntary, but in his mind that should not prejudice against the social importance of spending time preparing food, which is a creative, emotionally fulfilling, and loving act.Less
Americans have been known to idealize home cooked meals eaten with the family, but the general trend in our history has been to move away from these things. Ken Albala, one of America’s leading food historians, makes an impassioned plea for the importance of cooking from scratch, using fresh ingredients, and sharing the food with others, as one of the most meaningful and humane acts we can do. He is cognizant of the fact that cooking is not always easy, nor has it always been voluntary, but in his mind that should not prejudice against the social importance of spending time preparing food, which is a creative, emotionally fulfilling, and loving act.
