Eleven academics and independent scholars from the UK, U.S., and Brazil contribute 12 critical analyses of the recipe as a cultural form, addressing the variety of the recipe's appearances
within and across genres television programs, oral histories, magazines, novels, government documents, and cookbooks published and unpublished and time periods, and placing the recipe within a
range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. The text will be of interest to scholars of literature, popular culture, social history, women's studies, and food historians and
professional food writers. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)