This dissertation examines how women’s food writing, from blogs to cookbooks to novels, demonstrate a desire to articulate themselves as people within communities rather than accept a dehumanized identity as a consumer or set of credit-card numbers. I argue that through an emphasis on connection with one another via a discourse of scratch cooking and locally sourced foods, women are able to push back against the hegemony of corporate food and industrial agriculture. Working from a case study model, each of my chapters examines the distinct ways in which women assert their personhood apart from the homogenizing influences of mainstream food culture. As a means of articulating this woman’s culinary culture, predicated on a foundation of scratch cooking and local ingredients and relationships, I examine the food blog Fed Up With Lunch and the author’s use of an anonymous persona to interrogate the federal school lunch program; feminist vegetarian and vegan cookbooks authored by collectives of women who rely on oppositional identities in order to push back against what they view as hegemony; how diasporic Indian women use scratch cooking as a means of self-expression within the context of migration; and the novel cookbook as an example of injecting a feminist discourse of food into a traditional fictional narrative. Read together, these discrete case studies make an argument for women’s power to effect meaningful change from within the circumscribed space of the kitchen. / text

My dissertation project explores the ways in which the banana exposes Americans’ interconnected imaginings of exotic food, gender, and race. Since the late nineteenth century, The United Fruit Company’s continuous supply of bananas to US retail markets has veiled the fruit’s production history, and the company’s marketing strategies and campaigns have turned the banana into an American staple food. By the time Josephine Baker and Carmen Miranda were using the banana as part of their stage and screen costumes between the 1920s and the 1940s, this imported fruit had come to represent foreignness, tropicality, and exoticism. Building upon foodways studies and affect studies, which trace how foodstuffs travel and embody memory and affect, I show how romantic imaginings of bananas have drawn attention away from the exploitative nature of a fruit trade that benefits from and reinforces the imbalanced power relationship between the US and Central America. In this project, I analyze the meaning interwoven into three forms of cultural production: banana cookbooks published by the United Fruit Company for middle-class American housewives; McKay’s dissent poetry; and the costumes and exotic transnational stage performances of Baker, Miranda, and also the United Fruit mascot, Miss Chiquita. / 2021-01-11

Industrialization and rapid urbanization characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in many aspects of domestic life. Scholars have used community cookbooks to document changes in domestic roles at the turn of the twentieth century. This study uses community cookbooks to look beyond domestic roles and to trace changing foodways during the period from 1870 to 1930 in the northern Central Valley of California. Nine cookbooks from Sacramento, California and five cookbooks from Stockton, California reveal changes in foodways during this time. Recipes, text, and advertisements in these cookbooks show changes in the manner of home food production; a loss of pre-industrial food knowledge; increasing standardization in recipes and cooking knowledge; and an increasing reliance on commercially processed and name brand foods. These changes indicate a growing population and shifting demographics. The results provide insight into differences between urban and rural foodways as urban populations grow. The intrusion of industrialized food into rural home cooking may provide a backdrop for contemporary understanding of urban foodways. Researchers seeking to understand how commercial foods become entrenched in modern foodways can use community cookbooks to trace back the introduction and assimilation of commercially processed foods in the past. Rewinding the process may provide insights into a variety of issues related to processed food. In addition, this study presents a method for using community cookbooks as historical documents to trace food and foodways over time including the unique role of advertising in this context.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 C56 / Master of Science

In his latest collection of writings about the foodways of the Appalachian region, Fred W. Sauceman guides readers through country kitchens and church fellowship halls, across pasture fields and into smokehouses, down rows of vegetable gardens at the peak of the season and alongside ponds resonant with the sounds of a summer night. The scenes and subjects are oftentimes uniquely personal, and they combine to tell a love story, a chronicle of one person's affection for a region and its people, its products, and its places. Traversing Appalachia from an Italian kitchen in Pennsylvania to a soda shop in South Carolina, BUTTERMILK AND BIBLE BURGERS is a tribute to people loyal to the land and proud of their culinary heritage. Sauceman describes the common bond of breaking beans, the dignity of the barbecue pit, the nobility of the black-iron skillet, and the transformative power of a glass of Tennessee buttermilk. Sauceman also shares recipes from a teacher who lived to be 116. He explains Kentucky banana croquettes and Virginia Ju-Ju burgers. He samples trout caviar in the mountains of North Carolina and sorghum on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. From a notebook stained by Nehi, Sauceman calls forth stories of Hungarian immigrants who gather every fall to make cabbage rolls in Virginia and Cubans who converge in Tennessee to roast a pig and to remember. BUTTERMILK AND BIBLE BURGERS is most of all an expression of gratitude for the persistence of the people who feed us. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1031/thumbnail.jpg

Though casual readers may often assume cookbooks are primarily reference materials,cookbooks actually offer readers a type of autobiography; I examine cookbooks as literary autobiographical acts by analyzing three celebrity chefs' cookbooks and the recent film, Julie and Julia. Julie and Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, illustrates several key autobiographical ideas, specifically Barthes' ideas of readerly and writerly texts and the distinction between an author and a persona. The film acts as a visual representation of the way a reader engages with a text and makes it a writerly text while successfully distinguishing between an author and a persona/narrator. After a brief review of autobiography theory through Julie and Julia, the three selected authors' work further magnifies the ideas. The first celebrity chef, David Lebovitz, uses a highly narrative style and incorporates numerous autobiographical details into his books. The second, Ina Garten, utilizes different methods of creating a persona, including photography. The third chef, Dorie Greenspan, uses the same methods used by Lebovitz and Garten, but has been replicated extensively in online baking groups, making her texts ideal for understanding the role of the reader in an autobiography. The work of these three authors illustrates well how autobiographies function and how readers can reiterate their own autobiographies through the books and food they consume.

Hur kokböckers utformning och innehåll har förändrats är ett område som inte har undersökts i större utsträckning. Kokböcker är en del av kulturers måltidshistoria vilket kan ge en insyn till vem maten lagades samt vilken mat som tillagades. Uppsatsen handlar om hur kokböcker förändrats från 1755–1951 sett till design, struktur och innehåll. Fem kokböcker med cirka 50 års mellanrum har studerats för att se likheter och skillnader. Metoden bygger på en innehållsanalys på de fem böckerna där förorden samt recept har sammanställts, analyserats och jämförts mot varandra för att se hur de har förändrats under denna tidsperiod. Resultatet visar att det finns skillnader i böckerna men även en del likheter. Framförallt kan vi se att den tekniska utvecklingen har påverkat böckernas innehåll sett till de råvaror och tillagningsmetoder som användes. Däremot har målgruppen inte förändrats under denna tidsperiod. / How cookbooks' design and content have changed is an area that has not been investigated to a greater extent. Cookbooks are part of cultures culinary history, which allows you to understand who the food was cooked for and which food was cooked. The essay is about how cookbooks changed from 1755-1951 in terms of design, structure and content. Five cookbooks with about 50 years intervals have been studied to see similarities and differences. The method is based on a content analysis of five books where the foreword and recipes have been compiled, analyzed and compared to each other to see how they have changed during this time period. The result shows that there are differences in the books but also some similarities. In particular, we can see that technical developments have influenced the contents of the books due to the raw materials and cooking methods that were used. By contrast, the target group has not changed during this period.

Orientador: Leila Mezan Algranti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T06:30:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abrahao_ElianeMorelli_D.pdf: 5428557 bytes, checksum: 35bfe522f3421f2f7589f0f5359a0d35 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Três mulheres, três escolhas: Custodia Leopoldina de Oliveira (1835-1889), Anna Henriqueta de Albuquerque Pinheiro (1871-1950) e Barbara do Amaral Camargo Penteado (1875-1963). Cada autora à sua maneira, descortinou ¿ por meio da escrita, feminina e privada ¿ o universo do cozinhar. O léxico das receitas indica as técnicas de preparo empregadas, a modernização dos utensílios domésticos e dos espaços da casa, os ingredientes disponíveis à época deste estudo, as perpetuações e descontinuidades das iguarias e da vida do lar. A partir dos receituários de comida, fonte e objeto de estudo, procuraremos compreender de que maneira as práticas alimentares se consolidaram através dos tempos em certo espaço social. A leitura e a análise destes documentos trazem à luz detalhes do cotidiano familiar, da dinâmica econômica, cultural e social da elite cafeicultora, no período entre 1860 e 1940, reforçando a hipótese de que a alimentação funcionava como instrumento de criação e perpetuação de laços de amizade e veículo de pertencimento social / Abstract: Three women, three choices: Custodia Leopoldina de Oliveira (1835-1889), Anna Henriqueta de Albuquerque Pinheiro (1871-1950), and Barbara do Amaral Camargo Penteado (1875-1963). Each author, in her own fashion, unveiled ¿ through private feminine writing ¿ the universe of cooking. The recipes¿ lexicon indicates the preparing techniques employed, the modernization of the household appliances and house spaces, the available ingredients at the period studied, the perpetuations and discontinuities of the dishes and of the home life. Based on the food recipes, source and object of the study, we will attempt to comprehend in which way the fooding habits have been cemented through time in a given social space. The reading and the analysis of such documents bring to light details about the family life, the economic, cultural, and social dynamics of the coffee farmers elite in the period between 1860 and 1940, reinforcing the hypothesis that the feeding habits used to operate as an instrument for the creation and maintenance of friendship bonds, as well as a social belonging vehicle / Doutorado / Politica, Memoria e Cidade / Doutora em História

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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1985 B55 / Master of Science