Look who's cooking : the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century /

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Author / Creator:	Dutch, Jennifer Rachel, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Description:	ix, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Folklore studies in a multicultural world Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subject:	Cooking -- Social aspects -- United States. Food habits -- United States -- History. Convenience foods -- United States. Food -- United States -- History. Convenience foods. Cooking -- Social aspects. Food. Food habits. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11721500

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ISBN:	9781496818751 149681875X 9781496821126 1496821122
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Home cooking is a multibillion dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity-chef-branded goods even as self-described "foodies" seek authenticity by pickling, preserving, and canning foods in their own home kitchens. Despite this, claims that "no one has time to cook anymore" are common, lamenting the slow extinction of traditional American home cooking in the twenty-first century. In Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century, author Jennifer Rachel Dutch explores the death of home cooking, revealing how modern changes transformed cooking at home from an odious chore into a concept imbued with deep meanings associated with home, family, and community. Drawing on a wide array of texts--cookbooks, advertising, YouTube videos, and more--Dutch analyzes the many manifestations of traditional cooking in America today. She argues that what is missing from the discourse around home cooking is an understanding of skills and recipes as a form of folklore. Dutch's research reveals that home cooking is a powerful vessel that Americans fill with meaning because it represents both the continuity of the past and adaptability to the present. Home cooking is about much more than what is for dinner; it's about forging a connection to the past, displaying the self in the present, and leaving a lasting legacy for the future."--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Dutch, Jennifer Rachel, 1977- Look who's cooking. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018] 9781496818768

Table of Contents:

In the kitchen with grandma
From great grandma's hearth to mom's microwave: the transformation of American home cooking
Just like grandma never made: lamenting the loss of home cooking in America
From grandma's recipe box: how cookbooks sell comfort and help create America's consumer cooks
Brand name "grandma": selling tradition to American home cooks
Grandma's gone global: home-cooking traditions move from the kitchenette to the internet
In the kitchen with ... dad? Continuity and change in twenty-first-century home cooking.

Look who's cooking : the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century /

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