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A collection of nostalgic recipes. This title focuses on the efforts Irma Rosenthal took to educate herself about cooking, nutrition, health, and household management as a young, American-born, middle class Chicago bride of Jewish heritage. It analyzes primary material found in Irma's ""First Cook Book"" and memoirs.
Ellen F. Steinberg is an anthropological researcher and writer who was born and raised in Chicago. She is the author of two multidisciplinary works, Teach Me: An Ethnography of Adolescent Learning and Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966. She teaches as a visiting professor at local colleges, is a past president of Yonah Hadassah, and is vice-president and Chicago-area chair of the Society of Woman Geographers. Eleanor Hudera Hanson is a food consultant and founding partner of FoodWatch trend consulting company. Prior to founding FoodWatch, she worked with Kraft foods for seventeen years as manager of grocery products and later as director of Kraft Kitchens. Hanson is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the Food and Culinary Professionals section of the American Dietetics Association, and Les Dames d'Escoffier.