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

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.

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and television series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption--gastronomical and rhetorical--the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society, history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.

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