HC LIKE NEW: How the Hoosier Cabinet changed kitchen history, sped up food prep

by Nancy R. Hiller

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A kitchen "work center" became a game-changer in kitchen design The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History by Nancy R. Hiller is a richly illustrated historical study of the so-called Hoosier Cabinet, the freestanding kitchen work center that became a fixture in many American homes during the early twentieth century. The haredcover book examines how these cabinets transformed domestic labor by bringing storage, food preparation, and organization into one compact and efficient unit before the widespread adoption of built-in kitchens. Hiller traces the development of the Hoosier cabinet from its manufacturing origins in Indiana, where companies such as the Hoosier Manufacturing Co. popularized the form, through its rise to prominence in American households between roughly 1900 and the 1930s. The book explains howsuchg features as flour sifters, sugar bins, spice racks, pull-out work surfaces, and specialized compartments reflected changing ideas about efficiency, hygiene, and modern homemaking. Beyond furniture history, the volume places the Hoosier cabinet within broader social and cultural trends, exploring the evolution of domestic work, women’s roles in the home, industrial design, advertising, and consumer culture. Hiller pays particular attention to how manufacturers marketed these cabinets as labor-saving devices intended to modernize kitchens and simplify everyday life. LIKE NEW CONDITION. Clean, solid, lightly used hardcover, with dust jacket. SHIPS IN A CAREFULLY PACKED B

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN: 9780253314246
• Condition: Fine

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