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Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today

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ISBN-10: 0520289226

ISBN-13: 9780520289222

Edition: 2017

Authors: Amy B. Trubek

List price: $85.00
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Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Looking closely at the stories and practices of American home cooks, witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table, reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals. Over the past century, cooking has become an everyday choice but it is no longer an everyday chore. This is not, however, a story of decline. Rather it is one of transformation.   Making Modern Meals explores the state of American cooking across all its varied practices. For many cooking is chore. For others it is a craft. For some it is a creative process. The author challenges current assumptions about who cooks, who doesn't cook…    
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Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Binding: Cloth Text 
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English