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Across the past century, the world's writers have composed a myriad of cookbooks that are the product of culinary history and diverse influences. Kennan Ferguson's 2020 monograph Cookbook Politics elucidates how cookbooks are shaped by political ideologies as well as how "cookbooks operate in political ways" (Ferguson 2). In this research, Ferguson demonstrates a strong interest in the study of daily life, political history, and popular culture. To be more precise, his scholarship reflects a curiosity of the philosophies and ideas underlying politics and daily experiences in several forms of lived experience. In this way, Ferguson primarily identifies his book Cookbook Politics as being a "book of philosophy," which synthesizes an analysis by examining the cultural dynamics and textual significance of a mixed set of printed materials from several communities (2). To foster this unique discussion, Ferguson elucidates numerous culinary texts ranging from Mastering the Art of French Cooking to more unusual texts that are less concerned with the act of eating or preparing food. To explain the political significance of cookbooks, Ferguson theorizes how his objects of study relate pertin

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Author

Edward Chamberlain

Publisher

Berg Publishers; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor & Francis; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 1552-8014)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)