Making dinner : how American home cooks produce and make meaning out of the evening meal

Rawlins, Roblyn (author.). Livert, David, (author.).

Summary: "With a vast selection of foods and thousands of recipes to choose from, how do home cooks in America decide what to cook--and what does their cooking mean to them? Answering this question, Making Dinner is an empirical study of home cooking in the United States. Drawing on a combination of research methods, which includes in-depth interviews with over 50 cooks and cooking journals documenting over 300 home-cooked dinners, Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert explore how American home cooks think and feel about themselves, food, and cooking. Their findings reveal distinct types of cook--the family-first cook, the traditional cook, and the keen cook--and demonstrate how personal identities, family relationships, ideologies of gender and parenthood, and structural constraints all influence what ends up on the plate. Rawlins and Livert reveal research that fills the data gap on practices of home cooking in everyday life." --Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781474252553
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Physical Description: print
218 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Making Dinner, Making Meaning: Cooking, Family, and the Self -- The Basics of Making Dinner -- Hoping, Feeling and the Home Cook -- Time and the Home Cook -- Cooking and the Self -- The Family-first Cook: "The Point of My Cooking is to Nourish My Family and Make Others Happy" -- The Traditional Cook: "Like My Mom Used to Make" -- The Keen Cook: "I Love to Try New Things" -- Making Dinner Matters.