
The Recipe Reader: Narratives - Contexts - Traditions (Hardback)
Janet Floyd (author), Laurel Forster (author)
£120.00
Hardback
256 Pages
Published: 23/12/2003
Published: 23/12/2003
Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form. 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. In this volume, contributors address questions raised by the recipe, its context, its cultural moment and mode of expression. Examples are drawn from such diverse areas as: nineteenth and twentieth-century private publications, official government documents, campaigning literature, magazines, and fictions as well as cookery writers themselves, cookbooks and TV cookery. In subjecting the recipe to close critical analysis, The Recipe Reader serves to move the study of this cultural form forward. It will interest scholars of literature, popular culture, social history and women's studies as well as food historians and professional food writers. Written in an accessible style, this collection of essays expands the range of writers under consideration, and brings new perspectives, contexts and arguments into the existing field of debate about cookery writing.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780754608646
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 482 g
Dimensions: 219 x 153 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'The Recipe Reader will be most useful to textual scholars and culinary historians... cookbooks have been bestsellers virtually since the advent of the printed word, and it is surely worth reminding scholars of this very large corpus of popular print constituting, as one paper puts it, 'a rich and under-worked minefield [sic] for analysis.' Sharp 'The Recipe Reader contributes some new subjects for analysis and presents new perspectives on works many of us have read before... If you're a recipe reader [...] you'll find plenty of insights and substantial exploration within the pages of The Recipe Reader.' Gastronomica
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