Making Modern Meals: How Americans Cook Today Volume 66 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520289239)

Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks--witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table--Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship to making meals.

Making Modern Meals explores the state of American cooking over the past century and across all its varied practices, whether cooking is considered a chore, a craft, or a creative process. Trubek challenges current assumptions about who cooks, who doesn't, and what this means for culture, cuisine, and health. She locates, identifies, and discusses the myriad ways Americans cook in the modern age, and in doing so, argues that changes in making our meals--from shopping to cooking to dining--have created new cooks, new cooking categories, and new culinary challenges.

Author: Amy B. Trubek
ISBN-10: 0520289234
ISBN-13: 9780520289239
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2017
Choice 09/01/2018