{"product_id":"the-taste-of-nostalgia-9781477330289","title":"The Taste of Nostalgia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru's rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cookbooks, the first televised cooking shows, glossy lifestyle magazines, and imported domestic appliances and foodstuffs. Amy Cox Hall's \u003ci\u003eThe Taste of Nostalgia \u003c\/i\u003euses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian longings for modernity, both during the Cold War and today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews, personal stories, media images, and archival and ethnographic research, Cox Hall considers how elite, European-descended women and the urban home were central to Peru's modernizing project and finds that all women who labored within the deeply racialized and gendered world of food helped set the stage for a Peruvian food nationalism that is now global in the twenty-f\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50051523051863,"sku":"9781477330289","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477330289.jpg?v=1740362479","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-taste-of-nostalgia-9781477330289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}