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Author Pite, Rebekah E

Title Creating a common table in twentieth-century Argentina : Doña Petrona, women, & food / Rebekah E. Pite
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents Setting the Table -- The Elevation of Cooking in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina -- Creating a Public in Buenos Aires and Beyond -- Expanding Consumption and Middle-Class Domesticity -- Professionalizing a Thriftier Homemaker -- Shifting Priorities and Entertaining Inequalities -- Cooking in and out of the Spotlight -- Keeping the Table Set
Summary "Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in terms of the fame she enjoyed and the adulation she received. Her cookbook garnered tremendous popularity, becoming one of the three best-selling books in Argentina. Dona Petrona capitalized on and contributed to the growing appreciation for women's domestic roles as the Argentine economy expanded and fell into periodic crises. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including her own interviews with Dona Petrona's inner circle and with everyday women and men, Rebekah E. Pite provides a lively social history of twentieth-century Argentina, as exemplified through the fascinating story of Dona Petrona and the homemakers to whom she dedicated her career. Pite's narrative illuminates the important role of food--its consumption, preparation, and production--in daily life, class formation, and national identity. By connecting issues of gender, domestic work, and economic development, Pite brings into focus the critical importance of women's roles as consumers, cooks, and community builders"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gandulfo, Petrona C. de
SUBJECT Gandulfo, Petrona C. de
Gandulfo, Petrona C. de fast
Subject Cooking, Argentine.
Cooking -- Argentina
Women -- Argentina -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Feminism -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic -- Central American & South American.
Cooking
Cooking, Argentine
Feminism
Women -- Social conditions
Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469606910
1469606917
1469608049
9781469608044
Other Titles Creating a common table in 20th-century Argentina