Dinner roles: American women and culinary culture

1. "Bachelor bait" : men's cookbooks and the male cooking mystique

2. "The enchantment of mixing-spoons : cooking lessons for girls and boys

3. Paradise pudding, peach fluff, and prune perfection : dainty dishes and the construction of femininity

4. Waffle irons and banana mashers : selling Mrs. Consumer on electric kitchen gadgets

5. "Fearsome dishes" : international cooking and orientalism between the wars

6. "It's fun being thrifty!" : gendered cooking lessons during the Depression

7. Wear this uniform proudly, Mrs. America!" : Rosie the Riveter in the kitchen

8. Of casseroles and canned foods : building the happy housewife in the fifties.