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Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

Edited By Roxanne Harde, Janet Wesselius Copyright 2021
    254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    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.

    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

      2.

      Janet Wesselius

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

      3. Antje Rauwerda

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

      4.

      Méliné Kasparian

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

      5. Shuyin Yu

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

      6. Brita M. Thielen

      　

      Part II: Consumption and Community

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

      7.

      Ben Lee Taylor

    7. Julia Child and the "Servantless American Cook"

      8. Caroline B. Barta

    8. Consuming Poppy Cannon

      9. Claire Stewart

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

      10.

      Katherine Kittredge

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

      11. Rituparna Das

      　

      Part III: Cultural Consumption

    11. Waitress: Creating and Consuming Inspiration

      12.

      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

      13. Erin MacWilliam

    13. Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks and Memoirs of Taste

      14. Avery Blankenship

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

      15.

      Stacy Sivinski

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

      16. 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

    Biography

    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.

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