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Chew, chew, gulp!
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text demonstrate a variety of ways to eat different foods.
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Food and the novel in nineteenth-century America
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity—the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic—William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the incumbent with the European luxuries of pâté de foie gras and soupe à la reine while maintaining that he survived on “raw beef without salt.” The effectiveness of such claims reflected not only the continuing appeal of the frontier and the relatively primitive nature of American cooking, but also a rhetorical struggle to define how eating habits and culinary practices fit into ideas of the American character. From this crucial mid-century debate, the book’s argument reaches back to examine the formation of the myth of republican simplicity in revolutionary America and forward to the popularization of cosmopolitan sophistication during the Gilded Age. Drawing heavily on cookbooks, domestic manuals, travel writing, and the popular press, this historical framework structures a discussion of ways novelists use food to locate characters within their fictional worlds, evoking or contesting deeply held social beliefs about gender, class, and race. In addition to mid-century novelists like Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Warner, the book examines popular and canonical novels by writers as diverse as Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, Susanna Rowson, Catharine Sedgwick, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and Harriet Wilson. Some of these authors also wrote domestic manuals and cookbooks. In addition, McWilliams draws on a wide range of such work by William Alcott, Catharine Beecher, Eliza Leslie, Fannie Merrit Farmer, Maria Parloa, and others.
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Monsters don't eat broccoli
Illustrations and rhyming text reveal how imagination can spice up even the healthiest meal.
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Readers' Advisory: Reading a Cookbook: It’s More Than Just Directions
Edtior’s Note: The RUSQ 58:4 issue will contain a article about the inaugural 2018 RUSA CODES List—Cookbooks, which is list of cookbooks recommended as essential for public libraries. CODES is the Collection Development and Evaluation Section of RUSA.
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Eat your peas, Louise!
Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas. Includes suggested learning activities.
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Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction
This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.
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What I do with vegetable glue
Illustrations and rhyming text introduce a little girl who only eats cake and, lacking \"good stuff\" inside to keep her body together, must use her grandmother's vegetable glue to reattach parts that fall off.
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Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels
This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ethnic affiliations through their relationships to food.
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The incredible book eating boy
Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.
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Food and crime fiction: Two complementary approaches to the Vietnamese past in Tran-Nhut's 'Les travers du docteur Porc'
Among today's diasporic authors of Vietnamese origins, Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut and her younger sister Kim emerged as true pioneers in the historical crime fiction genre when they made their literary debut in 1999 with 'Le temple de la grue ecarlate'. The novel featured a character inspired by their own great-grandfather, the mandarin Tan, a young and talented magistrate of Dai-Viet - the official name of Vietnam in the 17th century. With eight novels currently to her name (the first two of which were signed by both sisters), Tran-Nhut has carved a comfortable niche for herself in the popular crime fiction market in France. She has obtained two awards - the Prix du Lion Noir 2008 for her sixth book, 'Les travers du docteur Porc' (2007), and the Prix Thierry Jonquet for her eighth novel, 'Les corbeaux de la mi-automne' (2011). Several of her books have been translated into Italian, Russian, Spanish, German and Japanese. What started as a game, a play of words and imagination, fictional events and characters, quickly became a lifechanging passion. The young Vietnamese-born French author was so enthusiastic about her writing that she abandoned her engineering career, travelling the world to gather material and publishing at the rate of one title every two years. This was a radical choice that (unlike Kim) she was prepared to make as early as 2004, after her fourth novel, even if she was not yet able to live by her pen: 'Mais je n'ai pas d'hesitation: si j'avais a choisir, je choisirais la vie tout court sur la vie professionnelle' (Mauvais genres 2004).
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