num_pages: 304
description: Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells us why we think as we do about food today.
language: English
title: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
titlecomplete: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24)
genres: Feminism, Cooking, History, Sociology, Foodie, Food, Gender, Food Writing, Food History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 446
series: California Studies in Food and Culture
publisher: Modern Library