{"product_id":"a-taste-of-power-9780520284982","title":"A Taste of Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unique... thought-provoking... Recommended.\" CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction  1 * \"For All Grades of Life\": The Making of a Republican Cuisine In Search of an American Cuisine: National Identity and Food \"All My Bones Were Made of Indian Corn\": Maize, Revolution, and Democracy An American Painter's Palate: Raphaelle Peale's Food Still Lifes Domestic Virtue and Citizenship in the Work of Lydia Maria Child \"Bread of Our Mothers\": Sylvester Graham and the Health of the Nation Cooking Contest: Regional, Transnational, and Class-Based Cuisines in the Antebellum United States A Republican Cuisine  2 * \"Wolf in Chef's Clothing\": Manly Cooking and Negotiations of Ideal Masculinity Why the Way to the Heart Is Through the Stomach \"Men, Meet the Kitchen\": Inventing Manly Cooking Flesh, Blood, and Hemingway: Campfire Cooking and Rugged Masculinities Hard-Boiled Cooking, Femmes Fatales, and American Noir Silver Spoons in Their Hands: The Rise of the Gourmet Playboys in the Kitchen: Manly Cooking in the 1950s and 1960s \"Will Cook for Sex\": Recipes for Manly Cooking  3 * \"The Difference Is Spreading\": Recipes for Lesbian Living Serving Heteronormativity--Queering the Menu Labor of Love: Gender Normativity and Contradictions in Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's Household Advice \"La Cuisine c'est la Femme\": The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book What Lesbians Eat: Identity, Food, and Same-Sex Desire How to Cook with Lesbians  Digestif: Power, Resistance, and Food  Notes Works Cited","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402875740503,"sku":"9780520284982","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520284982.jpg?v=1730481747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-taste-of-power-9780520284982","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}