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<p><p>shapiro Recounts The Story Of Scientific Cooking With A Deft Humor Some Might Find Unbecoming To A Work Of Impeccable Scholarship. Yet How Else Are We To Think About A Movement That Upheld Mayonnaise, Cream Sauce, And The Extended Boiling Of Vegetables As Cures For Every Social Ill, From Drunkenness And Degeneracy To Feminism And Labor Unrest?.... My Only Disappointment With <i>perfection Salad</i> Is That It Ends Too Soon. &#151;barbara Ehrenreich, <i>new York Times Book Review</i><p>a Comprehensive, Droll Social History Of A Curious Women's Movement That's Responsible For Everything From Nutritional Education Programs To Tv Dinners.&#151;maureen Corrigan, <i>village Voice</i></p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>a Journalist Who Has Written Extensively On Aspects Of Feminism, Shapiro Presents A Well-researched History Of Women As Nutritional Revolutionaries During The Late 19th And Early 20th Centuries. This Serious Study Is Lively Entertainment, Spiced By The Author's Wit And Wry Perceptions. Through Her, We Discover Clues To The Motives Of Women Who Turned American Kitchens Into Laboratories, Run According To The Dicta Of The Boston Cooking School And Similar Establishments

Author

with a new afterword, Laura Shapiro

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520257382

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, Social Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14