How Long to Read Good Food for Little Money

How Long Does it Take to Read Good Food for Little Money?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Good Food for Little Money by Katherine Leonard Turner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the period 1875-1930, working-class people in American cities cooked less and bought more ready-to-eat food than previous generations had. In dense urban areas, there were many locally-produced commercial options to replace cooking. And some working-class people may have wanted to cook less, because of the difficult conditions of shopping, cooking, and serving food in poor and working-class homes. In this dissertation, I argue that material considerations were as important as considerations of culture and the maintenance of social ties. By material considerations, I mean the physical and technological structure of people's lives. Food choices are conditioned by the time, space, and tools available to cook and eat with; people cooked not just what they wanted, but what they reasonably could cook in their circumstances. Along with choosing what to eat, people decide how to cook it, and sometimes whether they can hire or convince someone else to do it for them. I am interested in that decision, and in the range of possibilities open to urban working-class people. The decision to cook less ran against the grain of the large prescriptive literature on domestic economy, which in the last quarter of the nineteenth century urged housekeepers, paradoxically, to seek greater "efficiency" in cooking and keeping house by using old-fashioned methods of preservation, storage, buying in bulk and utilizing leftovers. These suggestions operated on two implicit assumptions, both of which were false: that home cooks in working families had the abundant kitchen equipment and storage space necessary to practice this economy; and that the time and effort of a homemaker was unwaged and therefore "free." Workers took a more practical view, and often chose to purchase food that was quick-cooking or ready-prepared, in order to save the cook's time for waged work or other household tasks. In other words, poor and working families recognized clearly the value of the cook's time and effort; and they often chose to convert that value into cash for rent, rather than a lower food bill. They decided for themselves how to combine production and consumption. In doing so, they asserted their adherence to a new consumption-oriented family economy, rather than the more traditional (and morally fraught) middle-class view of women's duties as home manager. Thus they anticipated the later turn toward a self-consciously consumer society.

How long is Good Food for Little Money?

Good Food for Little Money by Katherine Leonard Turner is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Good Food for Little Money Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Good Food for Little Money aloud.

What Reading Level is Good Food for Little Money?

Good Food for Little Money is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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