Anglophone cookbooks and the making of the Mediterranean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5393552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry Eli Kashdan (0000-0002-9884-5671, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food and Foodways (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07409710.2017.1270646 |
| OpenAlex | W2573030535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 10 |
The Anglophone cookbook writers Elizabeth David, Claudia Roden, and Paula Wolfert situate Mediterranean cookery at the intersection of science, history, literature, and art. In conversation with one another they build a discourse of Mediterranean food that binds up cooking and eating with cultural identity. To establish their authority as experts over the wide and varied Mediterranean zone, David, Roden, and Wolfert reach for an elusive unity across the sea, presupposing not only a shared history but an imagined past in which the Mediterranean presented a single cuisine and, by extension, a single culture. In suggesting the possibility of eating one's way into knowledge of a culture, each author stresses her own deep ties to the Mediterranean, sidestepping the fundamental ambiguity of these links. The Mediterranean their writing creates echoes this ambiguity, its lacunae bringing into relief the constructed nature of the “Mediterranean diet” and the unified Mediterranean it imagines. This construction is rendered available for readers via the doubled consumption of Mediterranean food and Mediterranean culture
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Conversation · Ethnology · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Mediterranean climate · Mediterranean diet · Mediterranean sea · Sociology · Communication · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |