San Antonio College Library

"In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn Neuhaus offers an analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly examining the cultural assumptions and anxieties - particularly about women and domesticity - they contain." "Neuhaus's in-depth survey of these cookbooks questions the supposedly straightforward lessons about food preparation they imparted. While she finds that cookbooks aimed...

"This unique experiment in multiple biography is the first substantial attempt ... to bring into clear light what actually is known about the man William Shakespeare. The thousands of letters, diaries, and personal papers consulted by Professor Schoenbaum in widely scattered collections; the documents, newspapers, and articles -- and the forgeries -- yield fresh, sometimes dramatic information about a host of controversial characters and incidents....