Introduction: Recipes for Revolution
Notes Introduction: Recipes for Revolution 1. Other works that focus specifically on women and cookbooks include Bower, Fordyce, and Zafar. 2. For studies of women and food culture, see Bentley, Haber, Meyers, and Shapiro, Perfection. 3. She also discusses that recipes need a reason to exist and exist as one smaller element of a larger discourse. “A recipe is...an embedded discourse, and like other embedded discourses, it can have a variety of relationships with its frame or its bed” (Leonardi 340). Both cookbooks and their recipes are part of a larger discourse community about women, cooking, and gender roles. 4. She continues, “There is much to be learned from reading a cookbook besides how to prepare food....Leafing through a cookbook is like peering through a kitchen window. The cookbook, like the diary and journal, evokes a universe inhabited by women both in harmony and in tension with their families, their communities and the larger social world” (Theophano 6). Whether cookbooks, diaries, or journals, such forms of writing offer a unique view into women’s lives. 5. General works on food culture in the United States include Hooker, Gabaccia, and Levenstein, Paradox and Revolution. 6. See Lustig, McClain, M. F. Porter, and Wynette. 7. Examples include First Congregational Unitarian Church, Ladies’ Aid Society, and Muddy Pond Mennonite Community. 8. See Granny’s Cookbook, Hispanic Recipe Book, Tausend, and Urdaneta. 9. A few are Grossinger, Kasdan, Katz, Leonard, Nash, and Nathan. 10. Similarly, Laura Schenone observes, “Cookbooks gave many women their first public voice....Through cookbooks, women would help define the values of the growing nation” (107).
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