Although 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 from the quintessential embodiment of lifestyle choices to the reflection of artistic aspiration is a complex, distinct, and important form of cultural expression. Contributors address questions raised by the recipe and its context, cultural moment, and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such...
Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualize...
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as they made new kinds of appearances throughout American society. The essays show how, across the USA, it was fundamentally women who drove changes in their visibility forward, in groups and as individuals. Their motivations, activities and understandings were essential to shaping the character of their present society and the nation's...
This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period...
The authors bring together some of the disparate contexts and debates on recipes, in order to demonstrate the multiple ways in which the recipe illuminates the cultural worlds in which it appears and constitutes a textual form worthy of study in its own right.
The authors bring together some of the disparate contexts and debates on recipes, in order to demonstrate the multiple ways in which the recipe illumi...
