Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
By (author): "Michael Stern, Ruth Reichl, Laura Shapiro"
Publish Date:
1986
ISBN0375756655
ISBN139780375756658
AsinPerfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Original titlePerfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food)
SeriesCalifornia Studies in Food and Culture #24
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.