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Cookbooks are attracting an enthusiastic readership, they are also attracting both new and established writers to the form...
Cookbooks have recently attracted considerably scholarly attention for what they have to offer to the study of food and gastronomy. Cookbooks also feature in discussions about popular culture, gender and media, history, literature, ethnicity and national culture for the insights they provide on a range of subjects. This collection brings together a series of case studies which demonstrate different ways of looking at writing, reading and publishing cookbooks through the lens of different themes: culinary culture and gastronomy; historical perspectives; cookbooks as popular culture; and writing, publishing and selling cookbooks.
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Researchers have at their disposition a diverse range of written resources, including fiction and popular media, to complement the interpretation of cookbooks....
- Special Issues: scholarly articleIn this paper, the authors provide a brief overview of Aboriginal food history and describe a newly-emerging focus on reintroducing native foods.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper explores Maclurcan as a culinary entrepreneur and the impact of locality on her cookery. It challenges popularly accepted ideas of the culinary ‘ineptitude’ of colonial Australia’s Anglo-Celtic cooks.
- Special Issues: scholarly articlePublished in 1878, Mrs Rawson’s cookery book and household hints was the first cookbook of its kind to provide recipes and household hints specifically tailored for life in colonial Australia...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleOur cookery book is a fine example of domestic feminism, iced with patriotism, which was first published during WW1. It is much more than a collection of recipes...
In different ways these cookbooks politicised domestic life and sought to domesticate political life by asserting a distinct voice for women and elevating the significance of cooking.
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Cookbooks are one of a variety of written forms that can be read as historical documents, functioning as testaments to individual, familial and cultural development.
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For thirty years, Maud Basham was an NZ food writer who, under the name of ‘Aunt Daisy’, exerted an unparalleled influence over domestic behaviour, household spending and pantry stocks...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleIn 1950, the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) published Cookery around the world, a cookbook, containing recipes sourced from six million country women...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article uses cookbooks of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to chart the relatively slow progress of Greek cuisine across the Australian culinary landscape
- Special Issues: scholarly articleLittle extended scholarly attention has been given to the singular contribution made by the AWW cookbooks, as a genre in their own right, to national culinary culture...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleCommunity cookbooks are a distinctive subgenre of cookery texts, consisting of the compiled recipes of individuals, sold in aid of community causes...
- Special Issues: scholarly articleA prominent advocate of Continental and Asian cookery in Melbourne in the 1950s, Donovan wrote and illustrated a number of very popular cookery books.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article considers how the winner of the inaugural series of Masterchef Australia, Julie Goodwin, fashioned an endearing persona that was both relatable and inspirational.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article reflects on the evolution of human-animal relations in Australia through the lens of the small but significant body of Australian published cookbooks for pets.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article is an investigation of how cookbooks and fictional works are reflections of each other in terms of creativity, function and structure...