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Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks

Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks

Tippen, Carrie Helms

Hardcover

Series: Ingrid G. Houck Food and Foodways

Food WritingGeneral ReferenceAgriculture

ISBN10: 1496854799
ISBN13: 9781496854797
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Dec 6 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, their tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative of the region is often one of pain, loss, privation, exploitation, poverty, and suffering of various kinds. While some cookbook writers go to great lengths to avoid reminding readers of this painful past, others invoke that pain as a marker of southern authenticity. Still others use stories of southern suffering as an opportunity to make space for reconciliation, reparation, or apology for past wrongs.

In Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks, author Carrie Helms Tippen attempts to understand the unique rhetorical situation of the southern cookbook as it negotiates a tension between the expectations of the genre and the prevailing metanarratives of the southern experience, one focused on pleasure and the other rooted in pain. Through an analysis of commercially published southern cookbooks from the 1990s to the present, Tippen examines the range of rhetorical purposes and strategies writers have employed, some of which undermine the reality of a painful past and cause harm or violence, and others which serve as tools for truth and reconciliation.

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