Perfection Salad
Subtitle: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food)
Contributors: Michael Stern (Introduction)
Series: Modern Library Food
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: February 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780375756658
First sentence: In the spring of 1923 a woman wrote to a popular food magazine called American Cookery with a question that may have been bothering her for some time: Q: Are Vegetables ever served at a buffet luncheon?
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."--BOOK JACKET.