The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions Book

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgements x

1 The Recipe in its Cultural Contexts Janet Floyd Laurel Forster 1

Traditions

2 Of Recipe Books and Reading in the Nineteenth Century: Mrs Beeton and her Cultural Consequences Margaret Beetham 15

3 Redefining 'Rudimentary' Narrative: Women's Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks Andrea K. Newlyn 31

4 'Talking' Recipes: What Mrs Fisher Knows and the African-American Cookbook Tradition Andrew Warnes 52

5 Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England Susan Zlotnick 72

6 'In Close Touch With her Government': Women and the Domestic Science Movement in World War One Propaganda Celia M. Kingsbury 88

Individual Interventions

7 The Importance of Being Greedy: Connoisseurship and Domesticity in the Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell Talia Schaffer 105

8 Simple, Honest Food: Elizabeth David and the Construction of Nation in Cookery Writing Janet Floyd 127

Contemporary Contexts

9 Liberating the Recipe: A Study of the Relationship between Food and Feminism in the early 1970s Laurel Forster 147

10 Regulation and Creativity: The Use of Recipes in Contemporary Fiction Sarah Sceats 169

11 Nigella Bites the Naked Chef: The Sexual and the Sensual in Television Cookery Programmes Maggie Andrews 187

12 Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe Marina de Camargo Heck 205

Bibliography 219

Name Index 235

Subject Index 241