| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Cooking the Book: An Introduction to Books That Cook -- INVOCATION -- 1 Porkchop Gravy: An Invocation (Poem) -- PART I: STARTERS -- 2 From American Cookery -- 3 From Delights and Prejudices (Nonfiction) -- 4 Puffblls: Finding the Inside: From Secrets of the Tsil Café (Fiction) -- 5 Full Moon Soup with Snow (Poem) -- 6 To Cèpe, with Love (or, The Alchemy of Longing) (Nonfiction) -- 7 Coriander and Carrot (Poem) -- 8 An Unspoken Hunger: From An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Nonfiction) -- PART II: BREAD, POLENTA, AND PASTA -- 9 From The American Frugal Housewife (Cookbook) -- 10 Recipe: Gingerbread (Poem) -- 11 Whistle Stop, Alabama: From Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fiction) -- 12 Bread (Poem) -- 13 In Nancy's Kitchen (Nonfiction) -- 14 From The Food Taster (Fiction) -- PART III: EGGS -- 15 From Boston Cooking-School Cookbook (Cookbook) -- 16 H Is for Happy: From An Alphabet for Gourmets (Nonfiction) -- 17 Making the Perfect Fried Egg Sandwich (Poem) -- 18 All It Took Was a Road / Surprises of Urban Renewal: From If I Can Cook / You Know God Can (Nonfiction) -- 19 Poison Egg (Fiction) -- PART IV: MAIN DISHES -- 20 From The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat (Cookbook) -- 21 American Liver Mush (Poem) -- 22 Eat Your Pets (Nonfiction) -- 23 How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke and Drum (Poem) -- 24 Spirit-Fried No-Name River Brown Trout: A Recipe: From My Story as Told by Water (Nonfiction) -- 25 Half-Life (Fiction) -- 26 The Poet in the Kitchen and The Poem of Chicken Breast with Fettuccine (Nonfiction and Poem) -- 27 A Good Roast Chicken: From Pass the Polenta: And Other Writings from the Kitchen (Nonfiction) -- 28 Turkey Bone Gumbo: From Gumbo Tales (Nonfiction) |
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29 Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred-Year-Old Eggs (Nonfiction) -- 30 13/16 (Poem) -- PART V: SIDE DISHES -- 31 From Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Cookbook) -- 32 The Vegetable Gardens at Bilignin: From The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (Nonfiction) -- 33 Summer Salad (Poem) -- 34 Reception (Poem) -- 35 Potatoes and Love: Some Reflections: From Heartburn (Fiction) -- 36 Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir: From Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Nonfiction) -- 37 The Demystification of Food: From Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (Nonfiction) -- 38 How to Cook Moong Dal, Bengali Style (Nonfiction) -- 39 Food and Belonging: At "Home" and in "Alien-Kitchens" (Nonfiction) -- PART VI: DESSERTS -- 40 From Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook (Cookbook) -- 41 All the Old Tales Are Tales of Hunger (Fiction) -- 42 Baking for Sylvia (Nonfiction) -- 43 Suman sa Ibos (Poem) -- 44 Pie: From Never Eat Your Heart Out (Nonfiction) -- 45 Funeral Food: From Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life (Nonfiction) -- 46 Pie Throwing: From Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook (Nonfiction) -- 47 Burn (Fiction) -- 48 The Assurance of Caramel Cake: From Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes (Nonfiction) -- A Toast -- 49 How to Make Rhubarb Wine (Poem) -- Contributors |
| Summary |
Organized like a cookbook, Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Mealis a collection of American literature written on the theme of food: from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts. All food literatures are indebted to the form and purpose of cookbooks, and each section begins with an excerpt from an influential American cookbook, progressing chronologically from the late 1700s through the present day, including such favorites asAmerican Cookery, theJoy of Cooking, andMastering the Art of French Cooking. The literary works within each section are an extension of these cookbooks, while the cookbook excerpts in turn become pieces of literature-forms of storytelling and memory-making all their own. Each section offers a delectable assortment of poetry, prose, and essays, and the selections all include at least one tempting recipe to entice readers to cook this book. Including writing from such notables as Maya Angelou, James Beard, Alice B. Toklas, Sherman Alexie, Nora Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, and Alice Waters, among many others, Books that Cookreveals the range of ways authors incorporate recipes-whether the recipe flavors the story or the story serves to add spice to the recipe. Books that Cookis a collection to serve students and teachers of food studies as well as any epicure who enjoys a good meal alongside a good book |
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48 The Assurance of Caramel Cake: From Hallelujah! The WelcomeTable: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes (Nonfiction) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooking in literature.
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Food in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General.
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COOKING -- Essays.
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COOKING -- General.
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Cooking in literature
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Food in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Literary cookbooks
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Literary cookbooks.
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Livres de cuisine inspirés de la littérature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972- editor.
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Nestle, Marion, writer of preface.
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| LC no. |
2014006080 |
| ISBN |
9781479838424 |
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147983842X |
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