Cookbooks as Life Stories/Life Stories as Cookbooks
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
29-9-2015 11:00 AM
Description
Drawing on folkloristics’ concept of the “life story” and recent foodways scholarship, this presentation examines cookbooks and recipes as autobiography and cultural history. We will discuss cookbookmemoirs by home cooks and professional chefs (Margaret Yardley Potter, Ree Drummond, Hubert Keller), the Bravo reality competition Top Chef, and the children’s picture books Bon Appetit! and A Fine Dessert.
Recommended Citation
Cox, Cynthia, "Cookbooks as Life Stories/Life Stories as Cookbooks" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 30.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/30
Cookbooks as Life Stories/Life Stories as Cookbooks
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Drawing on folkloristics’ concept of the “life story” and recent foodways scholarship, this presentation examines cookbooks and recipes as autobiography and cultural history. We will discuss cookbookmemoirs by home cooks and professional chefs (Margaret Yardley Potter, Ree Drummond, Hubert Keller), the Bravo reality competition Top Chef, and the children’s picture books Bon Appetit! and A Fine Dessert.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture