Historian Ian Mosby uses cookbooks as a source of information about the lives of women. The cookbook of one Jean Stephenson is especially useful because
Tag: food writing
Why Wine and Food Writing Matters
Food writer Monica Bhide posed the question of the value of food writing via a email from a student soliciting career advice. The student wondered
When Words Fail
What did the wines that stimulated conversation in Plato’s Symposium taste like? Or the clam chowder in Moby Dick, the “brown and yellow meats” served
Hyperbole for Dinner?
I guess the reasons are sort of obvious but isn’t it odd how food writers feel the need to exaggerate? Laura Miller really nails the
Kill It Till it’s Dead
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food”, wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903 in his play Man and Superman. I’ve seen this
For Cooks, the Good Old Days Weren’t so Good
Food historian Cynthia Bertelsen wonders if food writing relies too much on nostalgia, distorting our relationship to food in the process: Seeking the “perfect” French
