Resources

Dahnke, Marye. Marye Dahnke’s Salad Book. New York: Pocket Books; Thorpe and Porter, 1954.

Fabrizio, Lauren. “Exploring the Domestic Ideology of the Postwar Era through Cookbooks.” New Errands 3, no. 1 (2015): 14-20. https://doi.org/10.18113/P8ne3159811

Friedan, Betty. The feminine mystique. New York: Norton, 1963.

General Mills. Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956 (2nd ed.).

Horner, Jennifer. “Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook: A Gendered Ritual Response to Social Crises of the Postwar Era.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 24, no. 3 (2000): 332-342. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859900024003006

Neuhaus, Jessamyn. “The Way to a Man’s Heart: Gender Roles, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks in the 1950s.” Journal of Social History 32, no. 3 (1999): 529-555. https://www-jstor-org.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/stable/3789341

Williams, Amrys O. “Food: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2000.” Technology and Culture 54, no. 4 (2013): 947–956. http://sfx.scholarsportal.info.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/guelph/docview/1470423695?accountid=11233

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