TY - BOOK ID - 78490474 TI - A taste of power PY - 2015 SN - 0520960602 9780520960602 9780520284975 9780520284982 0520284976 0520284984 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Cookbooks KW - Food habits KW - Cooking, American KW - Food KW - Cook-books KW - Cookery KW - Recipe books KW - Books KW - Cooking KW - Foods KW - Dinners and dining KW - Home economics KW - Table KW - Diet KW - Dietaries KW - Gastronomy KW - Nutrition KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Cookbooks - Social aspects - United States. KW - Primitive societies KW - 19th century food. KW - american cooking. KW - american cuisine. KW - american culture. KW - american studies. KW - cooking. KW - culinary culture. KW - culinary discourse. KW - culinary literature. KW - culinary texts. KW - culinary. KW - cultural identities. KW - food and agriculture. KW - food and class. KW - food and culture. KW - food and gender. KW - food and identity. KW - food and power. KW - food history. KW - food lovers. KW - food studies. KW - food traditions. KW - food writing. KW - food. KW - historian. KW - history of cooking. KW - history of food in america. KW - humanities. KW - politics of food. KW - queering cooking. KW - queering food. KW - united states. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78490474 AB - "A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture"--Provided by publisher. ER -