Kennan Ferguson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is author and editor of numerous books including All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.

"Ferguson is interested not only in the ways in which cookbooks formalize, organize, and codify the political, but also in how cookbooks are 'archives of taste.' To explore this connection, he uses exemplary cases—either single books or book types—to think about the political nature and effects of taste...Cookbook Politicsoffers a unique perspective and makes an important contribution as an invitation to rethink the location of politics: on the political stage, in our kitchens, in our imaginations, or through our mouths and into our stomachs." (American Studies) "Are cookbooks political? Of course they are. But Cookbook Politics does much more than link recipes to the production of national identity or the division of household labor. Exploring cookbooks as models of authority and instruction, focusing on the practices of both reading and cooking, this deft book articulates a politics of food operating at the level of sensation and convincingly argues that a vital politics, like the best cooking, requires a healthy measure of creativity." (Chad Lavin, author of Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics) "Cookbook Politics convincingly demonstrates how cookbooks share and shape political life through the complex phenomena associated with eating. It is a major intervention in arguments concerning the politics of taste." (Thomas Dumm, author of Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Democracy: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Forms of PoliticsChapter 2. Nationalism: Why States Need CookbooksChapter 3. International Relations: Mastery, Sensibility, and Relational CookingChapter 4. Community: Cookbooks as CollectivityChapter 5. Ideology: Food, Fast and SlowConclusion. How Taste MattersNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Kennan Ferguson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is author and editor of numerous books including All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.

"Ferguson is interested not only in the ways in which cookbooks formalize, organize, and codify the political, but also in how cookbooks are 'archives of taste.' To explore this connection, he uses exemplary cases—either single books or book types—to think about the political nature and effects of taste...Cookbook Politicsoffers a unique perspective and makes an important contribution as an invitation to rethink the location of politics: on the political stage, in our kitchens, in our imaginations, or through our mouths and into our stomachs." (American Studies) "Are cookbooks political? Of course they are. But Cookbook Politics does much more than link recipes to the production of national identity or the division of household labor. Exploring cookbooks as models of authority and instruction, focusing on the practices of both reading and cooking, this deft book articulates a politics of food operating at the level of sensation and convincingly argues that a vital politics, like the best cooking, requires a healthy measure of creativity." (Chad Lavin, author of Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics) "Cookbook Politics convincingly demonstrates how cookbooks share and shape political life through the complex phenomena associated with eating. It is a major intervention in arguments concerning the politics of taste." (Thomas Dumm, author of Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Democracy: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Forms of PoliticsChapter 2. Nationalism: Why States Need CookbooksChapter 3. International Relations: Mastery, Sensibility, and Relational CookingChapter 4. Community: Cookbooks as CollectivityChapter 5. Ideology: Food, Fast and SlowConclusion. How Taste MattersNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Kennan Ferguson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is author and editor of numerous books including All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.

"Ferguson is interested not only in the ways in which cookbooks formalize, organize, and codify the political, but also in how cookbooks are 'archives of taste.' To explore this connection, he uses exemplary cases—either single books or book types—to think about the political nature and effects of taste...Cookbook Politicsoffers a unique perspective and makes an important contribution as an invitation to rethink the location of politics: on the political stage, in our kitchens, in our imaginations, or through our mouths and into our stomachs." (American Studies) "Are cookbooks political? Of course they are. But Cookbook Politics does much more than link recipes to the production of national identity or the division of household labor. Exploring cookbooks as models of authority and instruction, focusing on the practices of both reading and cooking, this deft book articulates a politics of food operating at the level of sensation and convincingly argues that a vital politics, like the best cooking, requires a healthy measure of creativity." (Chad Lavin, author of Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics) "Cookbook Politics convincingly demonstrates how cookbooks share and shape political life through the complex phenomena associated with eating. It is a major intervention in arguments concerning the politics of taste." (Thomas Dumm, author of Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Democracy: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Forms of PoliticsChapter 2. Nationalism: Why States Need CookbooksChapter 3. International Relations: Mastery, Sensibility, and Relational CookingChapter 4. Community: Cookbooks as CollectivityChapter 5. Ideology: Food, Fast and SlowConclusion. How Taste MattersNotesIndexAcknowledgments