No Ordinary Instructions: Nineteenth-Century English Gastronomy Books and the Female Art of Cooking
Capitolo di libro
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
No Ordinary Instructions: Nineteenth-Century English Gastronomy Books and the Female Art of Cooking / Salis, Loredana. - (2020), pp. 66-75.
Abstract:
Gastronomy books reflect and are the reflection of the way in which food shapes
received social roles. Focusing on nineteenth-century English cookery manuals
compiled by women, this study investigates their creative role as writers of recipes
as well as intercultural mediators within the culinary tradition of their country.
Through the art of cooking, publishing female experts in food preparations
could perform new roles, beyond the traditional ones as natural guardians of
culinary treasures, the nurturers and managers of all things domestic. Their recipes
were no ordinary instructions but explorations of and experimentations
with common tastes and eating habits that helped facilitate the encounter between
diverse local and exotic food ways.
received social roles. Focusing on nineteenth-century English cookery manuals
compiled by women, this study investigates their creative role as writers of recipes
as well as intercultural mediators within the culinary tradition of their country.
Through the art of cooking, publishing female experts in food preparations
could perform new roles, beyond the traditional ones as natural guardians of
culinary treasures, the nurturers and managers of all things domestic. Their recipes
were no ordinary instructions but explorations of and experimentations
with common tastes and eating habits that helped facilitate the encounter between
diverse local and exotic food ways.
Tipologia CRIS:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Nineteenth-century literature, gastronomy books, female writing
Elenco autori:
Salis, Loredana
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Titolo del libro:
Per scribendum, sumus. Ethnopoesis, or: Writing Heritage