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Recipes For Reading : Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories

  • Recipes For Reading : Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories

  • Attribution

    edited by Anne L. Bower

  • Publication Details

    Book, University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

  • Availability

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  TX652 .R377 1997  AVAILABLE

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  • Notes

    • The community cookbook is a familiar item in many kitchens. Usually compiled by women and sold to raise funds for a charitable cause, these collections of recipes may seem to be utilitarian objects that exhibit little if any narrative interest. But this is hardly the case. In Recipes for Reading, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine community cookbooks as complex texts deserving serious study. The contributors contend that such cookbooks have stories to tell about the lives and values of the women who wrote them, stories that are autobiographical in most cases, historical in some, and fictive in others

  • Contents

    • Bound Together: Recipes, Lives, Stories, and Readings / Anne Bower
    • Pt. 1. Approaches to Texts. "Tried Receipts" : An Overview of America’s Charitable Cookbooks / Janice Bluestein Longone. Cooking Up Stories: Narrative Elements in Community Cookbooks / Anne Bower. Claiming a Piece of the Pie: How the Language of Recipes Defines Community / Colleen Cotter
    • Pt. 2. Experiencing Texts. Growing Up with the Methodist Cookbooks / Ann Romines. Speaking Sisters: Relief Society Cookbooks and Mormon Culture / Marion Bishop. Voices, Stories, and Recipes in Selected Canadian Community Cookbooks / Elizabeth J. McDougall. Empathy, Energy, and Eating: Politics and Power in The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook / Sally Bishop Shigley
    • Pt. 3. Community Cookbooks in Context. The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver, 1888 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Ella Smith’s Unfinished Community Cookbook: A Social History of Women and Work in Smithtown, New York, 1884-1922 / Alice Ross. A Tale of Three Cakes: On the Air and in the Books / Nelljean M. Rice. Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Cocina eclectica : Recipes as Feminine Discourse / Nina M. Scott. Recipes for Patria: Cuisine, Gender, and Nation in Nineteenth- Century Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Cooking, Community, Culture: A Reading of Like Water for Chocolate / Cecelia Lawless

  • ISBN

    • 1558490892
    • 1558490884

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