Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The 1960s and 1970s are known politically for Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty" and economically for high inflation; since the 1970s, income inequality has continued to grow.This paper investigates the effect of this atmosphere on the ways in which people eat cheaply.It does this through analysis of nine budget cookbooks published in the United States before and after The Food Stamp Act.By comparing recipes in budget cookbooks to editions of Joy of Cooking, this paper argues that budget cookbooks teach readers how to cook common mainstream recipes inexpensively.The analysis finds that ingredients are often substituted, deleted, and added in different ways to achieve this cheaper goal.
Source: Graduate Journal of Food Studies
Author: Ashley Higgs
Language: English
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: No poverty, Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3082488504