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Recipe
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"Provides a succulent, soup-to-dessert analysis of the lessons embedded in recipes-lessons that extend well beyond the obvious instructions on how to prepare the actual food to more subtle guidelines for nourishing body, spirit, and self-identity; family and friendships; tradition and innovation; culture, creativity, commerce and competition"--
Provides a succulent, soup-to-dessert analysis of the lessons embedded in recipesβlessons that extend well beyond the obvious instructions on how to prepare the actual food to more subtle guidelines for nourishing body, spirit, and self-identity; family and friendships; tradition and innovation; culture, creativity, commerce and competition.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and improvisation, feasting and famine, survival and seduction, and love.
A recipe is a signature, as individual as the cookβs fingerprint; a passport to travel the world without leaving the kitchen; a lifeline for people in hunger and in want; and always a means to expand oneβs worldview, if not waistline.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Praised as fascinating and deeply insightful, Recipe is lauded for showing how recipes unite people and embody lessons in hospitality and identity. Karen Babine commends the book's thoughtful examination of recipes as both practical and imaginative, while readers highlight it as a compelling and satisfying read.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781501367106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 August 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 118.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 160g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Lynn Z. Bloom is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing Emerita at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she taught rhetoric and composition studies research, autobiography, creative nonfiction, and women writers courses 1988-2015. She has written more than 25 books, including Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times ( 2008) and The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays (2008). She has served as President of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1988-90 and chaired the Division of Teaching Writing and the Division of Prose Writing of the Modern Language Association.
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