Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories / edited by Anne L. Bower.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bower, Anne.

EBSCOhost.

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community cookbooks--History.

Community cookbooks.

Women's studies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and women's studies Based on sound and thorough scholarship, it will appeal not only to scholars, but also to a wider audience interested in food, cooking, and cookbooks". -- Susan J. Leonardi

Contents:

Bound together : recipes, lives, stories, and readings / Anne Bower

"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

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

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 ecléctica : 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271).

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Recipes for reading.

ISBN:

9781122054805

1122054807

Publisher Number:

99985657626

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.