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    This document summarizes the history of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook series from the 1930s to the 1990s. It describes how the cookbooks reflected changes in American tastes, cooking techniques, and lifestyles over the decades. It also highlights how recipes, cookbook designs, and perceptions of gender roles in the kitchen evolved from early editions to modern editions.

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    Better Homes and

    Garden: An
    Odyssey Through
    the Ages
    BY: Kishan and Katelyn

    Introduction: An American
    Staple
    The Be&er Homes and Gardens New Cookbook has been a
    great reference guide in American kitchens since 1930s
    The rst ediBon was released during the great depression
    Tons of recipes about preparing wild game, homemade mayo and
    cookies of the Bme

    The series of cookbooks reect changes in American taste,


    cooking techniques and lifestyles.

    1930s Be&er Homes and Garden

    First EdiBon Cookbook

    Timeline
    1935: My Be&er Homes and Gardens changed its name to
    New Cook Book.

    1938: The Tossed Salad was introduced for the rst Bme.
    1943: With the start of the Second World War, BHG created
    recipes and Bps for growing and yielding from your own
    victory garden.
    1955: The microwave was introduced to BHG readers.
    1956: The series Famous Foods from Famous Places begins,
    responding to the trend of families eaBng out more.
    1960s: BHG introduces InternaBonal cuisine for the rst Bme.
    1972: Natural Foods like granola, honey and yogurt.
    1980s and 90s: BHG becomes more health conscience and
    creates a diet and health column.

    Design Changes

    1933

    1996
    1953
    First EdiBon Cookbook
    New Cookbook 1953 Be&er Homes and Garden


    In 1940 the red plaid design was implemented in all the

    cookbooks. Also each book was given ring bindings and tab
    markers for easy navigaBon and easy access. BHG design crew
    is in charge of making design changes. The next big change
    was changing the horizontal plaid design to diagonal pa&ern.

    Cuisine Changes
    Between 1953 and 1996 major changes took place in American
    cuisine
    In 1953 because of the naBonal highway system Americans began
    transporBng processed foods. Eciency became a goal in cooking a
    so called cooking style was Jiy Cooking. Dishes were quick but
    unhealthy at the Bme.
    Aber the ImmigraBon Act of 1965 an inux of ethnic cuisine ooded
    America. Americans adapted Italian, Neapolitan, and Asian cuisine.

    Japanese Cuisine

    Comparing Recipes

    1953 Recipe

    Blume 1953 EdiBon

    1996 Recipe
    Blume 1996 EdiBon

    Gender Role Changes


    Early on BHG Cookbooks were centered towards tradiBonal
    American families in which the wife does the cooking.
    Gender roles shibed in the 1980s and 1990s which led to two
    income providers in a family and actudes changed about
    womens role. Cookbooks also began to acknowledge male
    cooks and dierent aged cooks.

    Gender Roles

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