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 international relations, and form communities.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Democracy: The Recipe, the Cookbook, and the Forms of Politics

Chapter 2. Nationalism: Why States Need Cookbooks

Chapter 3. International Relations: Mastery, Sensibility, and Relational Cooking

Chapter 4. Community: Cookbooks as Collectivity

Chapter 5. Ideology: Food, Fast and Slow

Conclusion. How Taste Matters

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Kennan Ferguson

Summary

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 international relations, and form communities.

Product details

• Authors: Kennan Ferguson
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2020
• EAN: 9780812252262
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5226-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education