In February, graduate student Morgan Barbre presented her paper “Perfection Salad: Cooking for White Futures in the U.S., 1914-1929” at a symposium sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements. The paper explored how things like domesticity, homemaking, and food trends (including the phenomenon of the now-infamous gelatin salad) helped to manifest white nationalist utopian ideals in the United States during World War I and the early interwar period. A podcast based on this research is forthcoming on the Centre’s website.
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