A mess of greens : Southern gender and Southern food / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt.

Author/creator Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D., 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Food habits--Southern States. --History.
Food--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History.
Cooking, American--Southern style. --History.
Women--Southern States. --Social life and customs.
Southern States--Social life and customs.
Southern States--Social conditions. --History.

Contents Whose food, when, and why?: longing for corn and beans -- Moonshine: drawing a bead on Southern food and gender -- Biscuits and cornbread: race, class, and gender politics of women baking bread -- Canning tomatoes: growing "better and more perfect women" -- Will work for food: mill work, pellagra, and gendered consumption -- Cookbooks and curb markets: wild messes of Southern food and gender -- Market bulletins: writing the mess of greens together.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-257) and index.
LCCN 2011012367
ISBN9780820334714 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0820334715 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820340371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0820340375 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GT2853.U5 E64 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold