Stock Images: What Cookbooks, Advertisements, and Chicken Soup Recipes Tell Us About Jewish AmericaMain MenuGolden Broth, Golden LandAn introduction to Stock ImagesThe Ashkenazi TableFood, immigration, and identity formation for new Jewish-AmericansMother Knows BestWomen's role in two spheres: "Kitchen Judaism"Campbell's and ClassCommercial interests and middle-class identityJewish AmericanaConcluding Stock Images
The likening of a home to a place of worship and the kitchen table an altar reinforces the woman's role as the primary conduit of Jewish values and traditions, but calling her a "servant" too reinforces subservience and gender inequity