America's Founding Food by Keith Stavely

However, Food on the Page is not a simple analysis of ingredients and instructions: Elias states that she is not interested in what Americans ate but rather how cookbooks have shaped readers’ understandings of what American food is from the eighteenth century to the present. Thus, if we are what we eat, cookbooks make us American. In these two engrossing studies, researchers move beyond recipes to investigate how cookbooks function as crucial national texts in the United States and as fruitful topics of print culture research.Īs Elias contends in her introduction, cookbooks are texts that are both “reflective and formative of their own culture” (3). US$ 32.95.Ĭookbooks have always been vital sources for food studies scholars, because they presumably document what foods people have eaten and how they have prepared them. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture. His earlier published works include The Politics of Milton’s Prose Style (Yale University Press, 1975), Family Man (Contemporary Books, 1978), and Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1987, pbk. He taught at Boston University, Boston College, and Ohio State University and worked for many years as a librarian in Massachusetts public libraries, retiring in 2008 as director of the Fall River Public Library. in English Literature from Yale University and a Master of Library Science from Simmons College. He has been a Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies fellow and a winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars. His earlier published works include The Politics of Milton’s Prose Style (Yale Unive Stavely is a writer and scholar whose interest in the Puritan influence on American and English culture has resulted in a number of critically-esteemed books and articles.

Stavely is a writer and scholar whose interest in the Puritan influence on American and English culture has resulted in a number of critically-esteemed books and articles.

America's Founding Food by Keith Stavely