“Beef Beyond Belief” is a great resource when looking at the years after the great depression. It also showed how women were viewed in the household, by using Martha Logan, home economist as the image for Swift and Co. She was the ideal housewife and was used in the cookbooks at attract other women that may have fallen in the same category of being a housewife in the 1950s. As it may be easy to look past cook booklets as artefacts, this piece of culinary ephemera shows us a small piece of history. On the culinary side of things, we can see a comparison on how food was prepared and cooked in the 50’s compared to the way things are several years later in the 21-century. For example, if the technology used during the 50's to make the food was different and if so how. This piece of ephemera can be used today by historians researching the economical perspective of living and can futher examine the gender roles in the 1950's.