Cooking by the Book: Food in Literature and CultureMary Anne Schofield The essays collected here explore the power and sensuality that food engenders within literature. The book permits the reader to sample food as a rhetorical structure, one that allows the individual writers to articulate the abstract concepts in a medium that is readily understandable. The second part of Cooking by the Book turns to the more diverse food rhetorics of the marketplace. What, for example, is the fast food rhetoric? Why are there so many eating disorders in our society? Is it possible to teach philosophy through cookery? How long has vegetarianism been popular? |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Cookery Literature or Literary Cookery | 7 |
Rites of Passage in Anita Brookners Fiction | 61 |
Fairy Tale Cannibalism in The Edible Woman | 78 |
Food as Love in Literature of the Frontier | 89 |
The Importance of Food in Two Popular | 114 |
Pasta Salad Lobster à la Riseholme | 126 |
Who Deserves a Break Today? Fast Food Cultural Rituals | 138 |
Eating Disorders in the Shadow | 147 |
Uses of Food in Contemporary | 159 |
Vegetarianism Bhuddism | 170 |
Looking at Early American Cookbooks from | 179 |
M F K Fishers Oysters | 198 |
A Selective Bibliography | 207 |
Notes on the Contributors | 216 |
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References to this book
The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions Janet Floyd,Laurel Forster No preview available - 2003 |