Cookbook politics /

From Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking to the community cookbook created by the First Baptist Church of Midland, Tennessee, Cookbook Politics explores the sensual and political implications of cookbooks, demonstrating how they create nations, establish ideologies, shape internat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Kennan, 1968- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2020]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6gzq
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Democracy: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Forms of Politics
  • 2. Nationalism: Why States Need Cookbooks
  • 3. International Relations: Mastery, Sensibility, and Relational Cooking
  • 4. Community: Cookbooks as Collectivity
  • 5. Ideology: Food, Fast and Slow
  • Conclusion: How Taste Matters
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.