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Book SynopsisAlthough the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts is a complex, distinct, and important form of cultural expression.
Trade Review“If you’re a recipe reader . . . you’ll find plenty of insights and substantial exploration within the pages of
The Recipe Reader.”—
GastronomicaTable of ContentsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. The Recipe in its Cultural Contexts -- Janet Floyd and Laurel ForsterTRADITIONS2. Of Recipe Books and Reading in the Nineteenth Century: Mrs Beeton and her Cultural Consequences -- Margaret Beetham3. Redefining 'Rudimentary' Narrative: Women's Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks -- Andrea K. Newlyn4. 'Talking' Recipes:
What Mrs Fisher Knows and the African-American Cookbook Tradition -- Andrew Warnes5. Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England -- Susan Zlotnick6. 'In Close Touch With her Government': Women and the Domestic Science Movement in World War One Propaganda -- Celia M. KingsburyINDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS7. The Importance of Being Greedy: Connoisseurship and Domesticity in the Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- Talia Schaffer8. Simple, Honest Food: Elizabeth David and the Construction of Nation in Cookery Writing -- Janet FloydCONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS9. Liberating the Recipe: A Study of the Relationship between Food and Feminism in the early 1970s -- Laurel Forster10. Regulation and Creativity: The Use of Recipes in Contemporary Fiction -- Sarah Sceats11. Nigella Bites and the Naked Chef: The Sexual and the Sensual in Television Cookery Programmmes -- Maggie Andrews12. Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe -- Marina de Camargo HeckBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
