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Title: Offensive to southern women
Review: Laura Schenone's book is more a tribute to rewriting history through the eyes of political correctness than a scholarly work. I found her comments in chapter 3 about southern white women so offensive I stopped reading the book. I felt her comments showed little research into the lives of most southern white women, and no attempt at all to try and understand how the agricultural economy and lifestyle shaped southern cooking. Her vision and understanding on the mid-1800 south seems to have come from a novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."I bought this book because I thought, based on reviews, this was a scholarly, historical, book. I find it a book colored by the authors prejudices than a book of facts and thoughtful, objective, analysis.
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