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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