Cold War kitchen : Americanization, technology, and European users / edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-395) and index.

Kitchens as technology and politics : an introduction / Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann -- The American "fat kitchen" in Europe : postwar domestic modernity and Marshall Plan strategies of enchantment / Greg Castillo -- Staging the kitchen debate : how splitnik got normalized in the United States / Cristina Carbone -- "Our kitchen is just as good" : Soviet responses to the American kitchen / Susan E. Reid -- The radiant American kitchen : domesticating Dutch nuclear energy / Irene Cieraad -- Supermarket USA confronts state socialism : airlifting the technopolitics of industrial food distribution into Cold War Yugoslavia / Shane Hamilton -- The Frankfurt kitchen : the model of modernity and the "madness" of traditional users, 1926 to 1933 / Martina Heßler -- Civilizing housewives versus participatory users : Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in the employ of the Turkish nation state / Esra Akcan -- "Consultation required!" Women coproducing the modern kitchen in the Netherlands, 1920 to 1970 / Liesbeth Bervoets -- The nation state or the United States? The irrestible kitchen of the British ministry of works, 1944 to 1951 / Julian Holder -- Managing choice : constructing the socialist consumption junction in the German Democratic Republic / Karin Zachmann -- What's new? Women pioneers and the Finnish state meet the American kitchen / Kirsi Saarikangas -- Exporting the American Cold War kitchen : challenging Americanization, technological transfer, and domestication / Ruth Oldenziel -- The Cold War and the kitchen in a global context : the debate over the United Nations guidelines on consumer protection / Matthew Hilton.

"Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the "big" politics of politicians and statesmen to the "small" politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of the mid-twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.