Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

by Roxanne Harde (Editor), Janet Wesselius (Editor)

Overview

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and television series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption—gastronomical and rhetorical—the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society, history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367611361
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/19/2022
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roxanne Harde is Professor of English at the University of Alberta's Augustana Faculty, where she also serves as Associate Dean, Research. A Fulbright Scholar, Roxanne researches and teaches American literature and culture, focusing on children’s literature and popular culture. Her most recent book is The Embodied Child, co-edited with Lydia Kokkola (Routledge, 2017).

Janet Wesselius is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta. In addition to her work in feminist epistemology, she has published on philosophy and children’s literature, American Pragmatism and Pollyanna, and Descartes and Anne of Green Gables.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius

Part I: Textual Consumption

1. Curiosity and Consumption in Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook and The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook

Janet Wesselius

2. Nadiya Hussain’s Bake Me a Story, Children’s Cookbooks, and British Islam

Antje Rauwerda

3. "Recipes for living": Meals, Memories, and Stories in Pat Mora’s House of Houses

Méliné Kasparian

4. "Sometimes it is better to crave": Asian American Fusion Cuisine, the Politics of Substitutions, and the Taste of Diasporic Loneliness

Shuyin Yu

5. Consuming the Past: Food Metaphors in the Intergenerational Food Memoir

Brita M. Thielen

Part II: Consumption and Community

6. Repackaging Modernism: Genre, Aesthetics, and Community in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Ben Lee Taylor

7. Julia Child and the "Servantless American Cook"

Caroline B. Barta

8. Consuming Poppy Cannon

Claire Stewart

9. Dishwater Hands across the Pantry: Ideological Resistance in the I Hate to Cook Book

Katherine Kittredge

10. The Labor of Love: Changes in Consumption Practices in Late Twentieth-Century Calcutta

Rituparna Das

Part III: Cultural Consumption

11. Waitress: Creating and Consuming Inspiration

Allison Kellar

12. Taste in Question: Recipes and Subjectivity in Martha Stewart Living, goop, and the Early Printed Cookbooks of Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook

Erin MacWilliam

13. Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks and Memoirs of Taste

Avery Blankenship

14. "Roots and Seeds": Reclaiming Regional Identity through Food in Ronni Lundy’s Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes

Stacy Sivinski

15. "A lifetime spent in the pursuit of good flavor": Edna Lewis’s Cookbooks

Nicole Stamant

16. "Looking for whatever bowl of soup … might restore us": Consumption and Nostalgia in Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans

Roxanne Harde