How Long to Read Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking

How Long Does it Take to Read Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking by Jessamyn Neuhaus

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

Description

From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive and piquant analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly uncovering the cultural assumptions and anxieties—particularly about women and domesticity—they contain. Neuhaus's in-depth survey of these cookbooks questions the supposedly straightforward lessons about food preparation they imparted. While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readers—mainly white, middle-class women—into effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy, not drudgery, in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Bracken's 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cook Book, attests to the limitations of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of bachelor cookbooks aimed at "the man in the kitchen" and the biases they display about male and female abilities, tastes, and responsibilities. Neuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine; the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens; and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s. More than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.

How long is Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking?

Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking by Jessamyn Neuhaus is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking aloud.

What Reading Level is Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking?

Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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