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Recipe

Series: Object Lessons
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Recipe explores the deeper meanings and cultural significance of recipes beyond their basic function as cooking instructions. It reveals how recipes teach us about hospitality, friendship, family, ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision, creativity, survival, and love. A recipe acts as a signature unique to the cook, a gateway to global cultures, and a vital support in times of need, expanding our worldview through the culinary arts.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in food culture, culinary arts, anthropology, and the intersection of tradition and creativity. Perfect for those who appreciate thoughtful reflections on everyday objects and their broader meanings.

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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 recipesβ€”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.

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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 cook’s 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 one’s worldview, if not waistline.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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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.

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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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