Intensifying Taste, Intensifying Identity: Collectivity through Community Cookbooks

More than Meals: A Narrative Criminological Analysis of Inmate‐Authored Cookbooks

“…These books provide glimpses of the way in which a community controls its own narrative. Research has examined community cookbooks through feminist and critical race perspectives (Bardenstein ; Collings Eves ; Dubisar ; Ferguson ; Fleitz ; Gvion ; Janowski ; West ; Williams ), and through the lens of geography and place (Bardenstein ; Baumel Joseph ; Epp ; Mecklenburg‐Faenger ; Neuhaus ; Novero ; Nussel ; Pilcher ; Ransom and Wright ) to establish the types of ‘story’ told by a variety of voices. Bower () created a typology of cookbooks by thematically analysing what she called the ‘home plots’ of these types of texts.…”

“…While the literature on community cookbooks is quite robust, research focused on these types of cookbooks authored by the institutionalised population is difficult to locate (for the exception, see Rouhan ()). This is a significant gap, for scholarship that analyses cookbooks from critical perspectives suggests that when food, particularly familiar food, is insufficient, its symbolic, communal importance is magnified by the role its absence plays in the body and in the memory (Baumel Joseph ; Bower ; Christensen ; Epp ; Ferguson ; Gvion ). Additionally, food is a powerful aspect of incarceration (Brisman ; Collins and Thompson ; Gibson‐Light ; Rouhan ; Smoyer ), intimating that explorations into inmates’ expressions of their relationships with food should be prioritised.…”

‘This is a tale of friendship, a story of togetherness’: the British monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

“…If cookbooks prompt questions of community (Ferguson 2012), there are questions around who benefits from Together's publication. 'Philanthrocapitalism' describes the ways in which the philanthropist themselves benefit from helping others, because the model 'emulates the way business is done in the for-profit world' (McGoey 2015, p. 7).…”

Iconic dishes, culture and identity: The Christmas pudding and its hundred years’ journey in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and India

“…They inform about what is important in societies and cultures, and so offer a valuable lens to explore the past (Wessell 2013;Wheaton 2015, 278). Because they are the written expression of a culture's food practices -real or idealized -cookbooks reflect a variety of societal dimensions, including questions of identity, power, status, gender, or politics (Lehmann 1999;Ferguson 2012). As for colonial publications, they not only reveal the need to adapt to new and often challenging circumstances, but also reflect the ideal cuisine that was expected from the colonizer's wives, and the ideal image of what the colonial way of life should be (Singley 2013, 2).…”