Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 488 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
"Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures and transformed tastes for independence into flavors of domestic autonomy. Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence integrates new documents into the Caribbean archive and presents them in a rare pan-Caribbean perspective. The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive Culinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Critical Caribbean studies.
Subjects:
Food writing -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Cookbooks -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Cooking -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Caribbean Area -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Food writing -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Cookbooks -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Cooking -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area -- History.
Caribbean Area -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
ISBN:
9781978829541
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
COOKING Writing Val | Northeast Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.