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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Cookbooks"”.
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'Tried and Tested’: community cookbooks in Australia, 1890-1980
Australian community cookbooks are an under-recognised and under-utilised trove of historical information about the life of the nation. Special features of form and function make this cookery genre distinctively revealing not only of the evolution of Australian food culture, but of …
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Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Modernization, 1905-1933
… that question in their writing in cookbooks at a pivotal moment in Spain's history. Pardo Bazán, a feminist writer and novelist, authored two cookbooks, <italic>La cocina española antigua</italic> (1913) and <italic>La cocina española moderna</italic> (1914). Burgos, a teacher, …
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Writing a measure of her life: the rhetoric of women's cookbooks
This dissertation argues that women have employed cookbooks as rhetorical vehicles in order to establish individual and communal identities, claim authority of a written genre, and respond to dominant notions of womanhood. Three categories of cookbooks are explored within the project including: …
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Beyond the Ancestral Skillet: Four Louisiana Women and Their Cookbooks, 1930-1970
Cookbooks have a unique ability to record women.s history, both private and public. Cookbooks transmit not only instructions for preparing specific dishes, but also the values of class, race and gender of the times and places in which they are created. This study will focus on several such …
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Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945
This thesis argues that cookbooks and cooking literature prescribed domesticity, specifically linked to the kitchen, as an obligation for American women in World War II. Building on the work of culinary historians and gender scholars, I argue that the government enlisted women as "kitchen …
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Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing
… principles of egalitarianism and democracy. Cookbooks and domestic writing soon engaged these discourses, as it was the task of women to cultivate a virtuous citizenry, and—through domestic print culture—to demonstrate the deleterious effect of unrestrained individual appetites on the …
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An Examination of Selected Ethnic Foodways in the Upper Midwest
… region. This thesis uses church and other local cookbooks to identify specific ethnic and non - ethnic foods eaten by the Dutch of Northwestern Iowa, the Norwegians of the North Dakota-Minnesota border area, and the German-Russians of Southern North Dakota. From this source of information, …
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Afflictions of tradition: trends and consequences of traditional African American foodways
… Rights movement -compared with African American cookbooks from the same periods, show connections between dietary patterns and changes in African American identity. This along with information from studies of the causes, effects, and treatments of metabolic disorders shows that the prevalence can …
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The cook as physician: medical philosophy, nutrition, and diet in England, 1450-1650
… manuals, culinary manuscripts, and printed cookbooks from the period to prove that cooks for the upper levels of English society were concerned about the effects that different foods had on health and that they prepared their meals with this information in mind.
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How Visual Narrative Can Elevate Immigrant Food
… to promote social equality. Photography and cookbooks, as traditional expressions of food art, provide insight into the vitality of food and the way people treat food.</p> <p>Graphic memoir and social engagement, as emerging categories, have emerged in the post-pandemic period. These diverse …
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West African Food Traditions in Virginia Foodways: A Historical Analysis of Origins and Survivals.
… accounts, personal interviews, and published cookbooks. Drawing on these research themes, this study concludes that West African food traditions did survive slavery and have affected foodways across cultural lines in Virginia and calls for further research on post Civil War transmission …
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Getting People to Wish What They Need: How the United States Government Used Public Relations Strategies to Communicate Food Policy During World War II, 1941-1945
… Dietary Allowances. This study examines cookbooks, newspaper and magazine articles as examples of how nutrition information was presented. The study finds that the government chose not to prioritize nutrition messages as part of their overall PR strategy, but the messages were embraced by …
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The French Chef and the Cold War: Julia Child and the Mask of Contained Domesticity
… as a figure that changed the face of cooking, cookbooks, and cooking television for audiences of the late twentieth and twenty first centuries. While this is true, many of these studies and reflections do not acknowledge Child's ability to change mainstream ideas by conforming to some of them. …
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Internet killed the Michelin star : the motives of narrative and style in food text creation on social media
… to their analog counterparts (e.g. in-print cookbooks), like communicating information about the food's preparation or what its consumption would be like, the surplus of food texts has been ushered in by a transformation of media infrastructure such as the internet, cameras on cheap mobile …
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Eating Edo, sensing Japan: food branding and market culture in late Tokugawa Japan, 1780-1868
… information and material circulations in Japan. Cookbooks, travel and shopping guides, and gazetteers introduced different kinds of foods, including regional specialties, prestigious food shops, which contracted the bakufu and other powerful officials, luxury foods to which commoners did not have …
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Structures of the Sensible: Smelling and Tasting the Text after World War I
… Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969) and the cookbooks of Julia Child and M. F. K. Fisher reveals the construction and disruption of corporate control over the sense of taste, which prioritizes efficiency over taste. The smell of disinfectants in the narratives of the third bubonic plague …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
… of “French” and “foreign” food—in cookbooks and newspapers, TV cooking demonstrations and talk shows, state policies and political debates—and how these helped to redefine French national identity in the last third of the twentieth century. Focusing on how the global context shapes …
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Jiternice and kolaches: food and identity in Wilson, Kansas
… Festival, the Midland Hotel, analysis of local cookbooks featuring Czech cooking, and changing meal patterns among local residents to examine the nature of the changing identity of the residents and the town. The four areas examined show the difference between the ways that ethnicity is …
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