The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements 1. The Recipe in its Cultural Contexts -- Janet Floyd and Laurel Forster TRADITIONS 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 INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS 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 CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS 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 and the Naked Chef: The Sexual and the Sensual in Television Cookery Programmmes -- Maggie Andrews; 12. Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe -- Marina de Camargo Heck Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Janet Floyd is a senior lecturer in American studies at King's College in London, the author of "Writing the Pioneer Women," and the coeditor of "Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior." Laurel Forster is a senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Portsmouth, coeditor of "British Culture and Society in 1970s Britain: The Lost Decade," and author of numerous articles on feminism and women's writing.

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