A Connecticut Yankee in Texas
By Meli AlexanderGrowing up in a small state like Connecticut in the 1970s was a great time to be an aspiring chef. Sandwiched between bigger states and bigger cities shaped Hartford Connecticut’s...
View Article“It Tastes/Smells like Home!”: Memory, Food Nostalgia & the Immigrant Experience
By Annima Bahukhandi British-Iranian food writer, Yasmin Khan, opens her recipe book, “The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen” (2016), with a frank admission of her lifelong obsession with...
View ArticleTeaching with Community Cookbooks
By Jolie BraunIncreasingly, cookbooks are finding a place in the classroom. In recent years, they have been used for teaching a variety of topics, including storytelling and language,[1] women’s...
View ArticleHandbook for Everyday Cooking: Leela Majumdar’s Infusion Approach
By Agnibha MaityIn Bengal, culinary practices have been influenced at different times in history by different communities, and modern-day Bengali cookbooks celebrate the amalgamation of the various...
View ArticleThe Imagined, Implied, and Authentic Audiences of an American Settlement...
By Kimberly S. Baker, PhDIn early 20th-century Milwaukee, a Midwestern American industrial city, social reformer Lizzie Kander and her fellow aid workers published a community cookbook (of sorts)....
View ArticleCommunity Cookbooks as Mapping Resources
By Suzanne Zoe Joskow When I began building The Community Cookbook Archive — made up of over four hundred Los Angeles-based collective recipe books, spanning three centuries — I was struck by the...
View Article‘An Extravagant Touch’: Emscote Primary School’s Charity Cookbook
By Bethan DaviesRootling through my mother’s files in the midst of moving house last year, I came across ‘The Emscote Cookery Book’, a recipe collection created by a group of teachers in the late 1970s...
View ArticleIn Search of Meat Substitute Recipes in Historical U.S. Community Cookbooks
By Jennifer “JJ” HarbsterThe Library of Congress has been collecting U.S. community cookbooks since the copyright deposit of one of the country’s first community cookbooks, Maria Moss’s 1864 “Poetical...
View Article“Pain au Levain”: Reproductive Rights, Recipes, and Community Cookbooks
By KC Hysmith, PhDPackaged in a brown paper and cellophane fold-over bag, not unlike those you’d find at your corner bakery or at the farmers’ market, the Beaux “Bread Bag” contains a hefty stack of...
View ArticleStovetop Solidarity: “Recipes for Semi-Starvation” and Antipoverty Organizing...
By Kimba Stahler Flipping through recipe cards or a cookbook is not the apolitical exercise some might think. Whether picked by workers earning a fair wage in a safe environment or transported by truck...
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