Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories

The community cookbook is a familiar item in many kitchens. Usually compiled by women and sold to raise funds for a charitable cause, these collections of recipes may seem to be utilitarian objects that exhibit little if any narrative interest. But this is hardly the case. In Recipes for Reading, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine community cookbooks as complex texts deserving serious study. The contributors contend that such cookbooks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558490892
• ISBN13: 9781558490895
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book.

Don't be misled by the anti-intellectual wailing of folks who didn't realize that this book was produced by an academic for an academic audience, and were angered to find a thought-provoking, challenging read rather than a collection of recipes. This book is extremely well-researched and carefully produced, and should provide any reader genuinely interested in the cultural perceptions of "women's work" with a lot of food for thought.