Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story1988

Narrator:
Following World War II, and the end of rationing in the early 50s, America was reacquainted with food as plentiful and cheap. There were vast changes in food delivery, availability and storage. Refrigerators, already a part of the American kitchen, became common place and thus eliminated the need for daily shopping. The growth of supermarkets with their rows and rows of dairy products, canned goods, meats, condiments, bakery goods, vegetables, fruits and staples, brought a large display of food into everybody's range. Few could leave the supermarket without more than they intended, and the kitchen, often the center of the home, contained an ever expanding variety of foods. Home life in America, connoted the cozy kitchen, food preparation, and meal time.