Title: The recipe reader : narratives, contexts, traditions /
Authors: Floyd, Janet.; Forster, Laurel, 1962-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Cooking
Contents: 1. The recipe in its cultural contexts / Janet Floyd and Laurel Foster -- 2. Of recipe books and reading in the nineteenth century: Mrs. Beeton and her cultural consequences / Margaret Beetham -- 3. Redefining 'rudimentary' narrative: women's nineteenth-century manuscript cookbooks / Andrea K. Newlyn -- 4. 'Talking' recipes: What Mrs. Fisher knows and the African-American cookbook tradition / Andrew Warnes -- 5. Domesticating imperialism: curry and cookbooks in Victorian England / Susan Zlotnick -- 6. 'In close touch with her government': women and the domestic science movement in World War One propaganda / Celia M. Kingsbury -- 7. The importance of being greedy: connoisseurship and domesticity in the writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell / Talia Schaffer -- 8. Simple, honest food: Elizabeth David and the construction of nation in cookery writing / Janet Floyd -- 9. Liberating the recipe: a study of the relationship between food and feminism in the early 1970s / Laurel Forster -- 10. Regulation and creativity: the use of recipes in contemporary fiction / Sarah Sceats -- 11. Nigella bites the naked chef: the sexual and the sensual in television cookery programmes / Maggie Andrews -- 12. Adapting and adopting: the migrating recipe / Marina de Camargo Heck.