"Into the Land of Talk"
Magazine article
By: Lydia Lion Roberts
Date: March 1926
Source: Roberts, Lydia Lion. "Into the Land of Talk." American Cookery, March 1926, 584–586.
About the Author: Lydia Lyon Roberts was a contributor to American Cookery, formerly known as The Boston Cooking-School Magazine.
Introduction
Everyday gossip can provide a unique window into the prevailing mind-set of an era, especially the thoughts and aspirations of ordinary people. Unlike politics, or even some aspects of popular culture, gossip reflects the mundane, day-to-day concerns of average citizens. We can decipher a great deal about a society by examining exactly what men and women chat about during their idle time.
It remains remarkably difficult to analyze such gossip because much of it is unrecorded. We have tantalizing glimpses of marketplace chitchat handed down from...
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