Posts tagged cooking
Recipe for Disaster? Restaurant-Branded Cookbooks
Recipe for Disaster? Restaurant-Branded Cookbooks

‘I call my cookbooks “fictions of flavour” for two reasons. The first being they are, in my view, creative pieces of work equal to novels with creativity found in the combination of ingredients rather than words, and the other, that they rarely exist off the page on a plate - just as books exist in our imaginations - and never stumble into reality.’

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Emily ColemanEmily Colemancooking, cookbook, recipe, cook, baking, recipes, kitchen, student, student cooking, restaurant, restaurants, ingredients, lockdown, reading, flavour, instructions, hospitality, stir fry, sausage casserole, spag-bol, curry, kitchen shelves, freezer, freezer food, restaurant experience, restaurant recipe books, dishoom, Gloria, The ritz, disaster, pandemic, Karlene Karst, The kitchen is for dancing, decor, supporting small business, gordan ramsay, takeaways, inspiration, bake, small chains, the huffington post, diners, cafe, lockdown closures
The Overlooked Impact of Recipe Books on Social and Cultural Identity
The Overlooked Impact of Recipe Books on Social and Cultural Identity

“Food is much more than a mere combination of ingredients. Yet, despite this widespread understanding, cookbooks, the guardians of our cuisines, are habitually viewed simply as collections of recipes. This over simplistic perception is directly rooted in widespread ignorance concerning the complex set of functions cookbooks perform.” This week, Jacob dives deep into the question ‘how do cookbooks shape our identity?’

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Jacob SmithSamuel Chapmancookbook, chef, chefs, culture, identity, cookbooks, appropriation, home cooking, cultural identity, post-war effects, food history, self, italian cuisine, feminism, african american cuisine, 1900's, twentieth century, food culture, personality, Geeta Kothari, Claude Fischer, Betty Friedan, public sphere, private sphere, Dorothy Iannone, women, white washing, Recipe, uncle ben, aunt Jemima, stereotype, domestic cooking, domestic work, post-war cookbooks, racism, ancestral history, jubilee, the jemima code, Toni Tipton-Martin, cooking, baking, cook, palestinian food, middle eastern food, dishes, cultural theft, multiculturalism, political, politics, political cookbooks, food activism, Cesar Chavez