19th century food
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american cooking
american cuisine
american culture
american studies
Author_Katharina Vester
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cooking
culinary
culinary culture
culinary discourse
culinary literature
culinary texts
cultural identities
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food
food and agriculture
food and class
food and culture
food and gender
food and identity
food and power
food history
food lovers
food studies
food traditions
food writing
historian
history of cooking
history of food in america
humanities
politics of food
queering cooking
queering food
united states
Product details
- ISBN 9780520284982
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A Taste of Power examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. Culinary writing has helped shape dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect wife and mother. In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how cookbooks became a way for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for Americans to distinguish themselves from Europeans, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women in the kitchen, and for lesbian authors to insert themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. A Taste of Power engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.
Katharina Vester is Assistant Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, where she teaches in the American Studies program.
