"The most social utensil in the world": chafing dish recipes for popularity, 1890-1920
| Author(s) | Naus, Laura | |
| Date Accessioned | 2020-05-28T13:43:17Z | |
| Date Available | 2020-05-28T13:43:17Z | |
| Publication Date | 1991 | |
| Abstract | Between 1890 and 1920, the chafing dish was a stock article for home entertaining, dorm room larks, and bachelor camaraderie. Basically a double-boiler over a portable heating device, the chafing dish cooked meals at the table. This fashion is charted through analysis of trade catalogues, etiquette books, cookbooks, household manuals, magazines, and popular literature. Not a new invention, the chafing dish became popular after 1890 because manufacturers and home economists aggressively marketed the chafing dish to middle-class Americans as the means to a more rewarding social life. Associated with both feminine domesticity and the male dominated public world of clubs, restaurants, and theaters, the chafing dish party combined nineteenth-century requirements for propriety with twentieth-century expectations of intimacy and gender mutuality. When public leisure activities became the dominant mode of courtship and informal socializing in the twenties, the chafing dish lost popularity. | en_US |
| Advisor | Garrison, J. Ritchie | |
| Degree | M.A. | |
| Program | University of Delaware, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture | |
| Unique Identifier | 1155624640 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/27184 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| URI | https://search.proquest.com/docview/303944829?accountid=10457 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Chafing dish cooking | |
| Title | "The most social utensil in the world": chafing dish recipes for popularity, 1890-1920 | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |