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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century
Published in Paperback by Univ. of Massachusetts Press (2001)
Author: Mary Drake McFeely
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History meets cooking meets gossip
What a great book! Mcfeely's writing is so effortless and chatty you may not realize how much there is too learn.

She takes you, historically speaking, from the time when women HAD to bake the family bread (and had to remember the correct, locally produced flour that would actually work) to where we are blase about our optional and hands-off bread machines.

She gives mini-bios on people important in cooking history, and also her opinions on them--she cheerfully skewers Irma Rombauer (Joy of Cooking) for being opinionated yet admires Rombauer's personality just the same.

She is strangely taciturn on Martha Stewart--arguably the best known cook today. A criticism here and there on how Martha's _techniques_ are difficult, but nothing like her pleasant gossip on Julia Child and on Rombauer. Is Mcfeely, too, afraid of Martha's wrath?

This is a history book and a social criticism that is also a lot of fun to read.


Lady Inspectors: The Campaign for a Better Workplace, 1893-1921
Published in Paperback by University of Georgia Press (1991)
Author: Mary Drake McFeely
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The Women's Annual, Number 5 1984-1985
Published in Hardcover by G K Hall (1986)
Author: Mary Drake McFeely
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Women's Work in Britain and America from the Nineties to World War I: An Annotated Bibliography
Published in Hardcover by G K Hall & Co (1983)
Author: Mary Drake McFeely
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