Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-310) and index
pt. 1. "A most enchanting occupation" : cookbooks in early and modern America, 1796-1941 -- pt. 2. "You are first and foremost homemakers" : cookbooks and the Second World War -- pt. 3. The cooking mystique : cookbooks and gender, 1945-1963.
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