The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions

Overview

Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts—from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration—is a complex, distinct, and important form of cultural expression. Contributors address questions raised by the recipe and its ...
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Overview

Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts—from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration—is a complex, distinct, and important form of cultural expression. Contributors address questions raised by the recipe and its context, cultural moment, and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as nineteenth- and twentieth-century private publications, official government documents, campaign literature, magazines, and fiction, as well as cookery writers themselves, cookbooks, and TV cookery. The Recipe Reader brings new perspectives, contexts, and arguments into the existing debate about cookery writing and will interest scholars of literature, popular culture, social history, and women’s studies, as well as food historians and professional food writers.
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Gastronomica
“If you’re a recipe reader . . . you’ll find plenty of insights and substantial exploration within the pages of The Recipe Reader.”—Gastronomica
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780803233614
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/2010
  • Series: At Table Series
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Janet Floyd is a senior lecturer in American studies at King’s College in London, the author of Writing the Pioneer Women, and the coeditor of Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior. Laurel Forster is a senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Portsmouth, coeditor of British Culture and Society in 1970s Britain: The Lost Decade, and author of numerous articles on feminism and women’s writing.
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgements x

1 The Recipe in its Cultural Contexts Janet Floyd Laurel Forster 1

Traditions

2 Of Recipe Books and Reading in the Nineteenth Century: Mrs Beeton and her Cultural Consequences Margaret Beetham 15

3 Redefining 'Rudimentary' Narrative: Women's Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks Andrea K. Newlyn 31

4 'Talking' Recipes: What Mrs Fisher Knows and the African-American Cookbook Tradition Andrew Warnes 52

5 Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England Susan Zlotnick 72

6 'In Close Touch With her Government': Women and the Domestic Science Movement in World War One Propaganda Celia M. Kingsbury 88

Individual Interventions

7 The Importance of Being Greedy: Connoisseurship and Domesticity in the Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell Talia Schaffer 105

8 Simple, Honest Food: Elizabeth David and the Construction of Nation in Cookery Writing Janet Floyd 127

Contemporary Contexts

9 Liberating the Recipe: A Study of the Relationship between Food and Feminism in the early 1970s Laurel Forster 147

10 Regulation and Creativity: The Use of Recipes in Contemporary Fiction Sarah Sceats 169

11 Nigella Bites the Naked Chef: The Sexual and the Sensual in Television Cookery Programmes Maggie Andrews 187

12 Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe Marina de Camargo Heck 205

Bibliography 219

Name Index 235

Subject Index 241

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