Research Catalog

Title

Consumption and the literary cookbook / edited by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wesselius, Janet Catherina
• Harde, Roxanne

Description

ix, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Combining cultural and literary studies approaches to literary cookbooks and the narratives surrounding them, this book offers intelligent and entertaining readings focused on rhetorical and gastronomical consumption"--

Subject

• Food in literature
• Cooking in literature
• Food habits in literature
• Gastronomy in literature
• Food writing > History
• Literary cookbooks > History and criticism
• Food writing
• Literary cookbooks

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Roxanne Harde & Janet Wesselius -- Textual consumption. Curiosity and consumption in Alice eats: a Wonderland cookbook and The Anne of Green Gables cookbook / Janet Wesselius -- Nadiya Hussain's Bake me a story, children's cookbooks and British Islam / Antje Rauwerda -- "Recipes for living" : meals, memories and stories in Pat Mora's House of houses / Méliné Kasparian -- "Sometimes, it is better to crave" : Asian-American fusion cuisine, the politics of substitutions, and the taste of diasporic loneliness / Shuyin Yu -- Consuming the past : food metaphors in the intergenerational food memoir / Brita M. Thielen -- Consumption & community. Repackaging modernism : genre, aesthetics, and community in The Alice B. Toklas cook book / Ben Lee Taylor -- Julia Child and the "servantless American cook" / Caroline Barta -- Consuming Poppy Cannon / Claire Stewart -- Dishwater hands across the pantry : ideological resistance in the I hate to cook book / Katherine Kittredge -- The labor of love : changes in consumption practices in late twentieth century Calcutta / Rituparna Das -- Cultural consumption. Waitress : creating and consuming inspiration in Sugar, butter, flour / Allison Kellar -- Taste in question : recipes and subjectivity in Martha Stewart Living, goop, and the early printed cookbooks of Hannah Glasse and Ann Cook / Erin MacWilliam -- Nineteenth century American manuscript cookbooks and memoirs of taste / Avery Blankenship -- "Roots and seeds" : reclaiming regional identity through food in Ronni Lundy's Victuals: an Appalachian journey, with recipes / Stacy Sivinski -- "A lifetime spent in the pursuit of good flavor" : Edna Lewis's cookbooks / Nicole Stamant -- "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.

Call Number

JFE 21-3767

ISBN

• 9780367635305
• 0367635305
• 9780367611361
• 0367611368

LCCN

• 2020039908
• 40030330863

OCLC

1195817303

Title

Consumption and the literary cookbook / edited by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wesselius, Janet Catherina, editor.

Harde, Roxanne, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030330863

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3767