Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

Roxanne Harde is Professor of English at the University of Alberta's Augustana Faculty, where she also serves as Associate Dean, Research. A Fulbright Scholar, Roxanne researches and teaches American literature and culture, focusing on children’s literature and popular culture. Her most recent book is The Embodied Child, co-edited with Lydia Kokkola (Routledge, 2017). Janet Wesselius is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta. In addition to her work in feminist epistemology, she has published on philosophy and children’s literature, American Pragmatism and Pollyanna, and Descartes and Anne of Green Gables.

• IntroductionRoxanne Harde and Janet WesseliusPart I: Textual Consumption Curiosity and Consumption in Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook and The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook Janet Wesselius Nadiya Hussain’s Bake Me a Story, Children’s Cookbooks, and British IslamAntje Rauwerda "Recipes for living": Meals, Memories, and Stories in Pat Mora’s House of Houses Méliné Kasparian "Sometimes it is better to crave": Asian American Fusion Cuisine, the Politics of Substitutions, and the Taste of Diasporic LonelinessShuyin Yu Consuming the Past: Food Metaphors in the Intergenerational Food MemoirBrita M. Thielen Part II: Consumption and Community Repackaging Modernism: Genre, Aesthetics, and Community in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book Ben Lee Taylor Julia Child and the "Servantless American Cook"Caroline B. Barta Consuming Poppy CannonClaire Stewart Dishwater Hands across the Pantry: Ideological Resistance in the I Hate to Cook Book Katherine Kittredge The Labor of Love: Changes in Consumption Practices in Late Twentieth-Century Calcutta Rituparna Das Part III: Cultural Consumption Waitress: Creating and Consuming Inspiration Allison Kellar Taste in Question: Recipes and Subjectivity in Martha Stewart Living, goop, and the Early Printed Cookbooks of Hannah Glasse and Ann CookErin MacWilliam Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks and Memoirs of TasteAvery Blankenship "Roots and Seeds": Reclaiming Regional Identity through Food in Ronni Lundy’s Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes Stacy Sivinski "A lifetime spent in the pursuit of good flavor": Edna Lewis’s CookbooksNicole Stamant "Looking for whatever bowl of soup … might restore us": Consumption and Nostalgia in Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans Roxanne Harde