Reading Cookbooks
- Albala, Ken. “Cookbooks as Historical Documents.” The Oxford Handbook of Food History, October 16, 2012.http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199729937-e-13.
- Bower, Anne L., ed. Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
- Claflin, Kyri W. “Representations of Food Production and Consumption: Cookbooks as Historical Sources.” In The Handbook of Food Research, edited by Anne Murcott, Warren Belasco, and Peter Jackson, 109–29. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
- Contois, Emily. “Teaching Food Studies, Cookbooks & Writing.” Emily Contois (blog), March 18, 2016. https://emilycontois.com/2016/03/18/teaching-food-studies-cookbooks-writing/.
- Fleitz, Elizabeth. “Cooking Codes: Cookbook Discourses as Women’s Rhetorical Practices.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 1, no. 1 (2010): 1–9.
- Johnston, Josée, Alexandra Rodney, and Phillipa Chong. “Making Change in the Kitchen? A Study of Celebrity Cookbooks, Culinary Personas, and Inequality.” Poetics 47 (December 2014): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2014.10.001.
- Klemettilä, Hannele. The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
- Leong, Elaine. “Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household.” Centaurus 55, no. 2 (n.d.): 81–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12019.
- Miller, Nancy K. “Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice.” Poetics Today 6, no. 1/2 (1985): 291–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/1772135.
- Murphy, Kate. “Cookbooks Echo With the Wisdom of Chefs Past.” The New York Times, January 28, 2013, sec. Food. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/dining/cookbooks-echo-with-the-wisdom-of-chefs-past.html.
- Neuhaus, Jessamyn. Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- “The Great American Cookbook?” TASTE (blog), November 22, 2017. https://www.tastecooking.com/the-great-american-cookbook/.
- Tipton-Martin, Toni. “Black Recipes Matter, Too: Why I Wanted to Break the Jemima Code.” Washington Post, September 15, 2015, sec. Food. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/black-recipes-matter-too-why-i-wanted-to-break-the-jemima-code/2015/09/14/00c072ee-5673-11e5-b8c9-944725fcd3b9_story.html.
- ———. The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015.
- Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham. “Cookbooks as Resources for Social History.” In Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History, edited by Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebookbatch.PMUSE_batch:890089872.
Cookbook reviews
Find cookbook reviews in HOLLIS:
- Type in cookbook (or the name of a specific cookbook) in the HOLLIS Everything option.
- From the results list, from the refinement options on the right-hand side, under Resource Type, choose Reviews.
Cookbook author biographical information
Find book-length biographies of cookbook authors in HOLLIS:
- In HOLLIS, choose the Advanced Search option from the top of the page.
- Choose the Library Catalog option.
- In the first line, from the drop-down menu, choose subject and type in cooks biography.
You may also want to try other terms, such as Women cooks -- Biography or Food writers -- Biography or Cooks -- United States -- Biography.
Find article-length biographies of cookbook authors in HOLLIS:
- In HOLLIS, choose the Advanced Search option from the top of the page.
- Keep the Everything search option.
- In the first line, from the drop-down menu, choose title and type in the name of the person you're looking for.
- From the results list, on the right-hand side, under Resource Type, choose Reference Entries (or Show More, then Reference Entries).
Find biographies online
Notable American women. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971-2004. 5 v.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 1711. 34
--Covers women deceased before 1999. Articles include extensive source lists giving particular attention to unpublished sources. Classified index (by field) in each vol. Vols. 1-4 indexed in Biography and genealogy master index. Full text in Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000
World Biographical Information System includes full text of thousands of biographical dictionaries accessible by name of biographee. Largely online full text, partly microfiche or print. What to do if a biographical article is not available online and further information.
Further information is available on the Finding Biographical Information guide.