What's the Word? Cookbooks as Literature

Summary:

Cookbooks can be more than just a source of recipes.

Website:

http://www.mla.org/radio

Timely on:

November: Thanksgiving

Tones:

Engaging, Polished, Thoughtful

Language:

English

Description:

Many of us have our favorite cookbooks, complete with dog-eared, sauce-stained pages. But cookbooks can be more than just a source of recipes; lavishly illustrated cookbooks transport us to faraway places. Classic cookbooks serve as cultural artifacts of their time and place, and cookbooks with stories may engross us as much as novels do. James Buzard takes us back to nineteenth-century England and a Victorian classic, _Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management_; Doris Witt talks about early African American cookbooks and Verta Mae Grosvenor's _Vibration Cooking_; and cookbook reviewer Sukey Howard talks about contemporary cookbooks and what they offer in addition to recipes.

Well-suited to Thanksgiving.

Fifteen- and thirty-second promos available.

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