Memories of mothers in the kitchen: Local foods, history, and women's work

Radical History Review

Volumn , Issue 110, 2011, Pages 167-177

  Deutsch, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 79959309632     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2010-032     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Gary Nabhan, Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 13-14.
2. Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 7.
3. Feminist social scientists have steadily documented the limitations of local foods politics, particularly, although not exclusively, around race and class. See, for instance, Patricia Allen, "Reweaving the Food Security Safety Net: Mediating Entitlement and Entrepreneurship, " Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1998): 117-29.
4. Patricia Allen and Carolyn Sachs, "Women and Food Chains: The Gendered Politics of Food, " International Journal of Sociology of Food and Agriculture 15 (2007): 1-23.
5. Melanie DuPuis and David Goodman, "Should We Go Home to Eat? Toward a Reflexive Politics of Localism, " Journal of Rural Studies 21 (July 2005): 359-71.
6. Clare Hinrichs and Patricia Allen, "Selective Patronage and Social Justice: Local Food Consumer Campaigns in Historical Context, " Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2008): 329-52.
7. Julia Guthman, "Neoliberalism and the Making of Food Politics in California, " Geoforum 39 (May 2008): 1171-83.
8. Rachel Slocum, "Anti-Racist Practice and the Work of Community Food Organizations, " Antipode 38 (March 2006): 327-49. Although the focus of this article is on histories of women's work, my thinking and writing have been informed by this important scholarship on the contemporary politics of food work.
9. Mark Bittman, Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating (New York: Pantheon, 2008), 31-36.
10. Barbara Kingsolver with Steven Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 126-27.
11. Michael Pollan, "Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch, " New York Times, July 29, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/magazine/02cooking-t. html.
12. Goodwin's blog can be accessed at www.yearofplenty.org.
13. Quote is from "Year of Plenty: A Recipe for Living and Cooking Local, " Fast Recipes, www.fastrecipes.com/interesting-cooking-resources/ year-of-plenty:-a-recipe-for-living-and-cooking-local-2010061240075 (both accessed July 11, 2010).
14. Pollan, "Out of the Kitchen. "
15. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 126.
16. Pollan, "Out of the Kitchen".
17. Mark Bittman promises that "conscious eating" will "help you lose weight, reduce your risk of many longterm or chronic diseases, save you real money and help stop global warming" and in addition "will be easier and more pleasant than any diet you've ever tried... [will] take less time and effort than your exercise routine, and [will] require no sacrifice" (Bittman, Food Matters, 1). For other examples of this widely circulating discourse, see Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food (New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007).
18. Jamie Oliver, Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals (New York: Hyperion, 2009).
19. Kathryn Joyce, "The Purpose-Driven Wife, " Mother Jones, March 2009, www.motherjones.com/media/2009/03/books-purpose-driven-wife.
20. and Quivering Daughters blog, www.quiveringdaughters.blogspot.com (accessed July 7, 2010).
21. See, for instance, MckMama's blog, www.mycharmingkids.net.
22. Homestead Blessings Web site, www.homestead-blessings. com.
23. "Our Life in the Last Great Frontier, " blog, www.steveandpaularunyan.blogspot.com (all accessed July 10, 2010).
24. Joel Salatin, "Re-birth of the Family Farm and the Household Economy, " www.farmers andfreeholders.org/joel-salatin-re-birth-of-the-family-farm-and-the-household-economy (accessed July 5, 2010).
25. Salatin is also an outspoken critic of state regulation and frequently expresses his faith in supply-and-demand. See "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal": War Stories from the Local Food Front (White River Junction, VT: Polyface, 2007).
26. On the policy toward women on Polyface Farms, see "Is Back to Nature Farming Only for Men? The Two Faces of Polyface Farm, " Irregular Times News, www.irregulartimes.com/polyface. html (accessed July 5, 2010).
27. Much of the second section of Pollan's influential Omnivore's Dilemma is devoted to detailed descriptions of the production and butchering methods on Salatin's farm.
28. Tracey Deutsch, Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
29. Advertisement, Chicago Tribune, September 28, 1952.
30. T. G. Harris, "George Pleasures Them with Groceries, " Look, May 1964, 28, 102, 110.
31. The Women of General Foods Kitchens, General Foods Kitchens (New York: Random House, 1959).
32. For an excellent discussion of the discourse surrounding cooking and sex in the 1950s, see Jessamyn Neuhaus, "The Joy of Sex Instruction: Women and Cooking in Marital Sex Manuals, 1920-1963, " in Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race, ed. Sherrie Inness (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001): 95-118.
33. Deutsch, Housewife's Paradise, 191-98.
34. Harold H. Martin, "Why She Really Goes to Market, " Saturday Evening Post, September 1963, 41-42.
35. Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (New York: McKay, 1957).
36. The Stepford Wives, prod. Edgar Sherick, dir. Bryan Forbes (Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975).
37. Laura Shapiro, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (New York: Penguin, 2005).
38. Marjorie DeVault, Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gender Work (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 67, 170-99.
39. The definitive text on higher prices in poor urban neighborhoods in this era remains David Caplovitz, The Poor Pay More: Consumer Practices of Low-Income Families (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1963).
40. See also Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003), 355.
41. Felicia Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 116-19.
42. Cohen, Consumers' Republic. On stores and commercial spaces as crucial sites in the enforcement of racial difference, see Grace Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
43. Ted Ownby, American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).
44. Davarian Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
45. Joanne Vanek, "Time Spent in Housework, " Scientific American, November 1974, 116-20.
46. DeVault, Feeding the Family, 11.
47. Bittman, Food Matters, vii.
48. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 127.
49. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 122.
50. "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, " U.S. Department of Agriculture, www.usda.gov/ wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navid=KNOWYOURFARMER (accessed July 6, 2010).
51. Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 17.