Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O (eBook)

American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959

Elizabeth Aldrich (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
392 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9308-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Silver Winner of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Popular Culture categoryCasseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O provides insight on how American food culture developed during the early years of the Cold War. Highlighting gender roles, the promotion of democracy and capitalism, and the impact of mass market advertising, the book draws on cookbooks, popular magazines, television advertisements, government publications, and industry pamphlets to paint a vivid picture of what Americans ate and how food was enlisted as a symbol of America's postwar dominance. Featuring eighty recipes, the book shows how the food industry promoted new processed foods to an increasingly industrialized nation. For anyone wanting to better understand how America's food culture developed during the mid-twentieth century and for those who were raised on TV dinners and Campbell's soup, the book offers an engaging and evocative look at the story of American cuisine during the early years of the Cold War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2023
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 51
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-9308-8 / 1438493088
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-9308-4 / 9781438493084