Food and entertainment from every corner of the Globe: Bourgeois U.S. households as points of encounter, 1870-1920

Amerikastudien

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-135

  Hoganson, Kristin ^a  

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2. "Home Interests," New York Tribune 14 Mar. 1880
3. Laura Shapiro acknowledges "adventurous perspectives" on food in the United States from 1870-1900, but her focus on domestic science leads her to emphasize an inward-looking and bland culinary nationalism on the part of domestic scientists. Laura Shapiro, Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (New York: Farrary, 1986) 212
4. On peas, see "Kitchen," Demorest's 19 June 1883: 513
5. on gullasch, see Lucia Millet Baxter, Housekeeper's Handy Book (Boston: The House Beautiful Publishing Co., 1918) 36
6. on dumplings, see Louise Rice, Dainty Dishes from Foreign Lands (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911) 31-5
7. on olla podrida, see Mary Shelley Pechin, The 3-6-5 Cook Book for Use 365 Days in the Year (Cleveland: Helman-Taylor, 1899)
8. C.J.P., "Several Ways of Serving Macaroni," The Ladies' World (Sept. 1899): 8
9. Juliet Corson, Family Living on $500 a Year (New York: Harper, 1888) 188
10. Catherine Owen, "French Terms Used in Cooking," Good Housekeeping 2 (20 Mar. 1886): 287-88
11. Baxter 30-31, 33, 34, 38, 41, 43, 47, 48, 70
12. Maria Parloa, Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion (Boston: Estes, 1887) 88-91
13. Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, ed., Handbook of Domestic Science and Household Arts for Use in Elementary Schools (New York: MacMillan, 1900) 201
14. A.A. Vantine and Co., Vantine's Catalog (New York: Vantine, 1914) 45-46
15. On French water, see "Celestins Vichy," Atlanta Constitution 3 Jan. 1912
16. William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (New York: Pantheon, 1993) 23
17. "Home Interests," New York Tribune 20 Jan. 1884
18. On the adoption of non-European groceries (especially tobacco, sugar, and tea) by the English from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, see Carole Shammas, "Changes in English and Anglo-American Consumption from 1550 to 1800," Consumption and the World of Goods, ed. John Brewer and Roy Porter (New York: Routledge, 1993) 177-205
19. Jacqueline B. Williams, The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900 (Pullman, Wash.: Washington State UP, 1996) 78
20. Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book (Philadelphia: Peterson, 1857)
21. In 1880, the first frozen Australian meat came to the British market, W. Hamish Fraser, The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914 (Hamden: Archon Books, 1981) 30, 153
22. Joseph B. Lyman and Laura E. Lyman, The Philosophy of House-Keeping: A Scientific and Practical Manual (Hartford: Goodwin and Betts, 1867) 31
23. Julia C. Andrews, Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea: Viewed Classically, Poetically, and Practically, Containing Numerous Curious Dishes and Feasts of All Times and All Countries (New York: Appleton, 1875) 133-34
24. Sallie Joy White, Housekeepers and Home-Makers (Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1888) 86
25. Eleanor Van Horn, "Recipes of Society Cooks," Good Housekeeping 50 (Jan. 1910): 119
26. Nupur Chaudhuri, "Shawls, Jewelry, Curry, and Rice in Victorian Britain," Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, ed. Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992) 231-46; 238
27. Edith Bradford Gird, "Spanish-California Cookery," Good Housekeeping 50 (Feb. 1910): 272-73
28. "Good Eating," Good Housekeeping 50 (Feb. 1910): 271
29. On the role of corporations in introducing and circulating new foods, see Donna R. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998) 37
30. Virginia Scott Jenkins, Bananas: An American History (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 2000) 15
31. Elizabeth Condit and Jessie A. Long, How to Cook and Why (New York: Harper, 1914) 2
32. On the German-American origins of a sauerkraut dish, see Sarah Tyson Rorer, Good Cooking (Philadelphia: Curtis, 1898) 55
33. Christine Frederick, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home (Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1921) 447. She praises the cooking abilities of Italian, Polish-Lithuanian, and French immigrants
34. Mary Ting Yi Lui, "'The Real Yellow Peril': Mapping Racial and Gender Boundaries in New York City's Chinatown, 1870-1910," Hitting Critical Mass 5 (Spring 1998): 107-26
35. On the role of restaurants in changing American dining, see Richard Pillsbury, No Foreign Food: The American Diet in Time and Place (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998) 165
36. Herbert Copeland, "Rice as the Chinese Prepare It," Ladies' Home Journal 25 (June 1908): 50
37. Rice 11. On immigrant grocery stores and truck farmers, see Gabaccia 64, 66
38. "Try a Cup of Real Indian Tea," Vogue 44 (14 Nov. 1914): 113
39. On culling "from each system the best, making use of the knowledge as opportunity offers," see Mary Barrett Brown, Ladies' Home Journal 8 (Apr. 1891): 26
40. As Nupur Chaudhuri has noted, cooking Indian dishes enabled even lower middle-class and working-class women to have "a share in the imperial experience and the benefits of empire," 242
41. Helen Campbell, "The American Housekeeper in Norway and the Kitchens of the North," House Beautiful 10 (Aug. 1901): 156-58; 156
42. Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking (New York: Fords, 1881) 7; Pechin vii
43. "German-American Housekeeping," The Chatauquan May 1883: 442-45; 444
44. "German Cookery," Good Housekeeping 2 (9 Jan. 1886): 143
45. Andrews 265
46. Lyman and Lyman 39
47. "Snails as an Article of Food," The Household 12 (Jan. 1879): 8
48. Corson 89
49. Andrews 117
50. Andrews 263
51. Emma Shaw Colcleugh, "The Eskimo Woman As I Found Her," The Ladies' World Dec. 1896: 10
52. Rice 8
53. "Human Food," The Cottage Hearth 2 (Mar. 1875): 71
54. Andrews 258-9
55. Alice M. Ivimy, "A Norwegian Morning Meal," Good Housekeeping 51 (Aug. 1910): 221
56. Wilson 73
57. Helen Campbell, "The American Housekeeper" 157
58. Campbell, The Easiest Way 77
59. Jane Hunter, The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China (New Haven: Yale UP, 1984) 134
60. see also Chaudhuri 231
61. Campbell, The Easiest Way 77, 149, 151, 169, 199
62. Rebecca Middleton Samson, "The Art of Little Things," Good Housekeeping 60 (Nov. 1910): 616-17
63. Saint Nihal Singh, "The Cooking of Vegetables as Done by the Hindu," Good Housekeeping 50 (Mar. 1910): 544-46
64. Rice 46
65. Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln [Mrs. D. A. Lincoln], Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888) 309
66. On chopsticks, see Mary Dawson and Emma Paddock Telford, The Book of Parties and Pastimes (New York: Rickey, 1912) 168-69
67. on tea cups, see "Chat," Demorest's 29 (Nov. 1892): 51
68. "Church Socials from Over the Seas," Ladies' Home Journal 31 (Feb. 1914): 73
69. Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1982) 174-75
70. For an incisive account of the politics of masquerade (albeit one focused overwhelmingly on men), see Philip J. Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven: Yale UP, 1998) 8
71. Reid Mitchell, All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995) 53, 107
72. Sarah Leyburn Coe, "A Personality Party," Vogue 35 (12 Feb. 1910) 12
73. Leach 105
74. Beverly Gordon, Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1998) 131
75. "Second Day of the Fair," Times Picayune 3 Feb. 1896
76. Anna Wentworth Sears, "Midwinter Entertainments," Harper's Bazaar Jan. 1904: 88-89
77. "Oriental Markets at Bazaar," Chicago Tribune 5 Feb. 1904
78. "A Japanese Party," Los Angeles Times 3 May 1896
79. on a Japanese-themed whist party, see "La Paloma Club," Los Angeles Times 1 May 1904
80. Sears 88-89
81. On parties intended to evoke Spain, Holland, Scotland, Denmark, and the Orient, see Jennifer Jo Hammond, "'Novelty in Entertaining . . . Easily and Artistically Arranged': Middle-Class Women and Themed Parties in America, 1880-1915," M.A. Thesis, U of Delaware, 1997, 37
82. "Chat" 51
83. B. Shackman and Co., Catalog (New York: Shackman, 1912) 38 (napkins), 141 (fans), 153 (lanterns), 154 (flags), 159 (Dutch goods)
84. Gordon 131
85. For all the other booth descriptions, see Caroline French Benton, Fairs and Fetes (Boston: Dana Estes, 1912) 129-33. Selling hospital supplies alongside "native" artifacts suggested both the appropriation and exoticizing of the Philippines
86. Benton 145-7
87. Ellye Howell Glover, "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Party Pastimes for the Up-to-Date Hostess (Chicago: McClurg, 1912) 35
88. Sears 88-89
89. Glover 249
90. On one carnival of nations to benefit missions, see "Girls to Appear in Grand Kirmess," Chicago Tribune 4 Dec. 1908
91. As The Ladies' Home Journal reminded readers, it was possible to obtain "from one of our returned missionaries for twenty-five cents a package of program helps. Chinese rules of etiquette come in printed form at ten cents a dozen," "Church Socials from Over the Seas," Ladies' Home Journal 31 (Feb. 1914): 73
92. Catherine Atkinson Miller, Joy from Japan, Recreation Programs (Philadelphia: Heidelberg P, 1923) 14
93. "Church Socials," 73
94. On Chinese and Delft booths, see also Winnifred Fales, "The New Wall-Paper Bazar Booths," Ladies' Home Journal 28 (Oct. 1911): 49
95. Miller 195, 198
96. Emma Churchman Hewitt, Queen of Home (Oakland, CA: Smith, 1889) 337
97. Mary E. Blain, Games for All Occasions (New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1909) 165
98. Dawson and Telford 169
99. Dawson and Telford 16
100. Glover 192
101. Ardern Holt, Fancy Dresses Described, 6th ed. (London: Debenham and Freebody, n.d.)
102. Dawson and Telford 16
103. On Americanizing foreign foods, see Pillsbury 98. Chaudhuri has written on the adaptation of Indian cuisine in Victorian Britain, 239
104. M. B. Bosson, Aunt Menu's Recipe Book (Philadelphia: The National Baptist, 1888)
105. Rice 8
106. Gordon 132
107. Lincoln 284