Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing Emerita at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she taught rhetoric and composition studies research, autobiography, creative nonfiction, and women writers courses 1988-2015. She has written more than 25 books, including Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times ( 2008) and The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008). She has served as President of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1988-90 and chaired the Division of Teaching Writing and the Division of Prose Writing of the Modern Language Association.

Fascinating. . . . [Bloom] explains how recipes unite us, contain lessons about hospitality, and can be a signature as individual as fingerprints.

• Introduction: The Secret Life of Recipes1. “First, Turn and Face the Stove.” The Recipe as an Instruction Guide2. “You say toma¯to, I say tomahto”: The Recipe as Conversation3. A Taste of Home: The Recipe for Comfort Cooking in Tough Times4. Joys of Cooking—and Eating: The Great American Thanksgiving Celebration Recipe5. “Please, sir, I want some more.” The Recipe as a Manifestation of Power, Politics Poverty, and Punishment6. Play With Your Food, the Recipe as JazzLagniappe: The Best Blueberry PieIndex

Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing Emerita at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she taught rhetoric and composition studies research, autobiography, creative nonfiction, and women writers courses 1988-2015. She has written more than 25 books, including Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times ( 2008) and The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008). She has served as President of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1988-90 and chaired the Division of Teaching Writing and the Division of Prose Writing of the Modern Language Association.

Fascinating. . . . [Bloom] explains how recipes unite us, contain lessons about hospitality, and can be a signature as individual as fingerprints.

• Introduction: The Secret Life of Recipes1. “First, Turn and Face the Stove.” The Recipe as an Instruction Guide2. “You say toma¯to, I say tomahto”: The Recipe as Conversation3. A Taste of Home: The Recipe for Comfort Cooking in Tough Times4. Joys of Cooking—and Eating: The Great American Thanksgiving Celebration Recipe5. “Please, sir, I want some more.” The Recipe as a Manifestation of Power, Politics Poverty, and Punishment6. Play With Your Food, the Recipe as JazzLagniappe: The Best Blueberry PieIndex