Janet Theophano: Eat My Words | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781403962935 | Eat My Words | Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote

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Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. Beginning in the seventeenth century and moving up through the present day, Theophano reads between the lines of recipes for dandelion wine, "Queen of Puddings," and half-pound cake to capture the stories and voices of these remarkable [...] selection of books looked at is enticing and wide-ranging. Theophano begins with seventeenth-century English estate housekeeping books that served as both cookbooks and reading primers so that women could educate themselves during long hours in the kitchen. She looks at A Date with a Dish, a classic African American cookbook that reveals the roots of many traditional American dishes, and she brings to life a 1950s cookbook written specifically for Americans by a Chinese émigré and transcribed into English by her daughter. Finally, Theophano looks at the contemporary cookbooks of Lynne Rosetto Kaspar, Madeleine Kamman, and Alice Waters to illustrate the sophistication and political activism present in modern cookbook writing. Janet Theophano harvests the rich history of cookbook writing to show how much more can be learned from a recipe than how to make a casserole, roast a chicken, or bake a cake. We discover that women's writings about food reveal--and revel in--the details of their lives, families, and the cultures they help to shape.

Über den Autor

Janet Theophano is a leading social historian and Associate Director of the College of General Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes widely on food and foodways in American life.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction * Cookbooks as Communities * Cookbooks as Collective Memory and Identity * Lineage and Legacies * Cookbooks as Autobiography * Cookbooks, Literacy and Domesticity * Becoming an Author: Cookbooks and Conduct * Recipe and Household Literature as Social and Political Commentary * Epilogue

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe , Kochen & Backen
Rubrik:	Essen & Trinken
Thema:	Themenkochbücher
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781403962935
ISBN-10:	1403962936
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Theophano, Janet
Hersteller:	St. Martin's Griffin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Janet Theophano
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2003
Gewicht:	0,54 kg

Artikel-ID: 102542014

Über den Autor

Janet Theophano is a leading social historian and Associate Director of the College of General Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes widely on food and foodways in American life.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe , Kochen & Backen
Rubrik:	Essen & Trinken
Thema:	Themenkochbücher
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781403962935
ISBN-10:	1403962936
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Theophano, Janet
Hersteller:	St. Martin's Griffin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Janet Theophano
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2003
Gewicht:	0,54 kg