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A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food
in our lives In an age of mass factory farming, processed and
pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat
ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning
writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists,
Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat
according to our values. These essays are not lectures about what
you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead,
the contributors tell the stories of real people—real bellies,
real bodies—including the writers themselves, who seek to
understand the experiences, families, cultures, histories, and
systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics. From
gardening as an alternative to factory farming, to the indigenous
cultures surrounding salmon and the corporate cultures surrounding
chocolate, the topics featured in this collection expand our
understanding of what ethical eating can be. Poets like Ross Gay
and Aimee Nezhukumatathil muse lyrically on the role of sustenance
in their lives. Other contributors describe efforts to change how
our food is sourced. In her compelling piece, farmer and food
sovereignty activist Leah Penniman celebrates both ancestral seeds
and wisdom when discussing her Afro-Indigenous farming and forestry
practices. Across the country in the high desert, Michael P. Branch
details his frustrating-yet-humorous attempts to grow a garden with
his young daughters. Professional chef Thérèse Nelson shows how
hot sauce represents joy, expression, and magic for many Black
people. Each contributor tugs at the imagination with insightful
discussions of the role food plays in our lives. Good Eats will
inspire you to find more mindfulness and joy in your diet. These
essays turn mundane meals into remarkable symbols of how we live,
encouraging each of us to find food that is both sustaining and
sustainable. Contributors include Ross Gay, DeLyssa Begay, Lynn Z.
Bloom, Michael P. Branch, Nikky Finney, Shirley Geok-lin Lim,
Barbara J. King, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Penniman, Adrienne Su,
Ira Sukrungruang, Tina Vasquez, Nicole Walker, Thérèse Nelson,
Lisa Knopp, Jane Brox, Maureen Stanton, Taté Walker, and many
others.
Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism
between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black
uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most
popular women writers of the era. Combining analyses of personal
correspondence and print culture with close readings of key
narratives, this study presents an original history of
transatlantic authorship that examines how these writers invented a
collaborative aesthetics both within and against the dominant
discourse of professionalism.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. 'You are as Thoroughly Woman as you are English': Strong Femininity and the Making of George Eliot 3. 'The Wild and Distracted Call for Proof': Harriet Beecher Stowe's Lady Byron Vindicated and the New Professionalism 4. 'A More Living Interest': George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Politics of American Reception 5. 'Proclaiming the Royal Lineage to the Average Mind': high-Art Aesthetics, the Novel, and Competing Femininities in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Story of Avis Afterward
A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food
in our lives In an age of mass factory farming, processed and
pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat
ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning
writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists,
Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat
according to our values. These essays are not lectures about what
you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead,
the contributors tell the stories of real people—real bellies,
real bodies—including the writers themselves, who seek to
understand the experiences, families, cultures, histories, and
systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics. From
gardening as an alternative to factory farming, to the indigenous
cultures surrounding salmon and the corporate cultures surrounding
chocolate, the topics featured in this collection expand our
understanding of what ethical eating can be. Poets like Ross Gay
and Aimee Nezhukumatathil muse lyrically on the role of sustenance
in their lives. Other contributors describe efforts to change how
our food is sourced. In her compelling piece, farmer and food
sovereignty activist Leah Penniman celebrates both ancestral seeds
and wisdom when discussing her Afro-Indigenous farming and forestry
practices. Across the country in the high desert, Michael P. Branch
details his frustrating-yet-humorous attempts to grow a garden with
his young daughters. Professional chef Thérèse Nelson shows how
hot sauce represents joy, expression, and magic for many Black
people. Each contributor tugs at the imagination with insightful
discussions of the role food plays in our lives. Good Eats will
inspire you to find more mindfulness and joy in your diet. These
essays turn mundane meals into remarkable symbols of how we live,
encouraging each of us to find food that is both sustaining and
sustainable. Contributors include Ross Gay, DeLyssa Begay, Lynn Z.
Bloom, Michael P. Branch, Nikky Finney, Shirley Geok-lin Lim,
Barbara J. King, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Penniman, Adrienne Su,
Ira Sukrungruang, Tina Vasquez, Nicole Walker, Thérèse Nelson,
Lisa Knopp, Jane Brox, Maureen Stanton, Taté Walker, and many
others.
Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows
that recipes are far more than a set of instructions on how to make
a dish. They are culture-keepers as well as culture-makers, both
recording memories and fostering new ones. Organized like a
cookbook, Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal is a
collection of American literature written on the theme of food:
from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts. All
food literatures are indebted to the form and purpose of cookbooks,
and each section begins with an excerpt from an influential
American cookbook, progressing chronologically from the late 1700s
through the present day, including such favorites as American
Cookery, the Joy of Cooking, and Mastering the Art of French
Cooking. The literary works within each section are an extension of
these cookbooks, while the cookbook excerpts in turn become pieces
of literature—forms of storytelling and memory-making all their
own. Each section offers a delectable assortment of poetry, prose,
and essays, and the selections all include at least one tempting
recipe to entice readers to cook this book. Including writing from
such notables as Maya Angelou, James Beard, Alice B. Toklas,
Sherman Alexie, Nora Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, and Alice Waters, among
many others, Books That Cook reveals the range of ways authors
incorporate recipes—whether the recipe flavors the story or the
story serves to add spice to the recipe. Books That Cook is a
collection to serve students and teachers of food studies as well
as any epicure who enjoys a good meal alongside a good book.
Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet
Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the
1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased.
Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated
to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's
Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more
seriously on the wide variety of her work and started to create
knowledge that broadens our understanding. Beyond Uncle Tom's
Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Sylvia
Mayer and Monika Mueller, shows that during her long writing and
publishing career, Stowe was a highly prolific writer who targeted
diverse audiences, dealt with drastically changing economic,
commercial, and cultural contexts, and wrote in a diversity of
genres. Reflecting a recent trend to move Stowe's other texts to
the fore, the essays collected in this volume thus go beyond the
critical focus on Uncle Tom's Cabin. They focus on several of
Stowe's other texts that have also significantly contributed to
American literary and cultural history, among them her New England
novels, her New York City novels, and her fictional writings on
religious differences between Europe and the United States. The
essays in the first part of Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin concentrate on
Stowe's language use, her rhetoric and choices of narrative
technique and style, while the essays in the second part
concentrate on thematic issues such as the representation of race,
ethnicity, and religion, her participation in the emerging
environmentalist movement, and Stowe's response to major economic
shifts after the Civil War.
Kindred Hands, a collection of previously unpublished letters by
women writers, explores the act and art of writing from diverse
perspectives and experiences. The letters illuminate such issues as
authorship, aesthetics, collaboration, inspiration, and authorial
intent. By focusing on letters that deal with authorship, the
editors reveal a multiplicity of perspectives on female authorship
that would otherwise require visits to archives and special
collections. Representing some of the most important female writers
of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including
transatlantic correspondents, women of color, canonical writers,
regional writers, and women living in the British empire, ""Kindred
Hands"" will enliven scholarship on a host of topics, including
reception theory, feminist studies, social history, composition
theory, modernism, and nineteenth-century studies. Moreover,
because it represents previously unpublished primary sources, the
collection will initiate new discussions on race, class, sexuality,
ethnicity, and gender with an eye to writing at the turn of the
twentieth century. Jennifer Cognard-Black, an assistant professor
of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland, is the author of
""Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps""
and a coauthor of ""Advancing Rhetoric"". Elizabeth MacLeod Walls
teaches in the Department of English at Nebraska Wesleyan
University and serves as the executive director of a Lilly
Endowment grant, supporting continuing education in Nebraska.
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