Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks
Stephanie Alexander is central to any discussion of food and food writing in Australia; she may reasonably be considered Australia's Elizabeth David. This article examines two of Alexander's cookbooks written in diary format, Stephanie's Seasons (1993) and Stephanie's Journal (19...
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Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2006
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| description | Stephanie Alexander is central to any discussion of food and food writing in Australia; she may reasonably be considered Australia's Elizabeth David. This article examines two of Alexander's cookbooks written in diary format, Stephanie's Seasons (1993) and Stephanie's Journal (1999). Although the diary format is an unusual way to present a published cookbook, women have used this method, most commonly in manuscript cookbooks, never intended for publication. What makes Alexander's diary cookbooks unique is that they were written with the intention of being published. Diary cookbooks provide a means of incorporating aspects of a writer's everyday life with cookery writing and recipes. Importantly, the diary cookbook allows the writer to explore the minutiae of everyday life, including cooking and eating, whilst simultaneously articulating the performance of multiple identities--in Alexander's case, as entrepreneur, mother, restaurateur, friend, writer, daughter, community leader, activist, and chef. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-159962017-01-30T11:53:13Z Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks Supski, Sian Stephanie Alexander is central to any discussion of food and food writing in Australia; she may reasonably be considered Australia's Elizabeth David. This article examines two of Alexander's cookbooks written in diary format, Stephanie's Seasons (1993) and Stephanie's Journal (1999). Although the diary format is an unusual way to present a published cookbook, women have used this method, most commonly in manuscript cookbooks, never intended for publication. What makes Alexander's diary cookbooks unique is that they were written with the intention of being published. Diary cookbooks provide a means of incorporating aspects of a writer's everyday life with cookery writing and recipes. Importantly, the diary cookbook allows the writer to explore the minutiae of everyday life, including cooking and eating, whilst simultaneously articulating the performance of multiple identities--in Alexander's case, as entrepreneur, mother, restaurateur, friend, writer, daughter, community leader, activist, and chef. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15996 Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Supski, Sian Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title | Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title_full | Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title_fullStr | Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title_short | Chop, Taste and Read: Examining Stephanie Alexander's Diary Cookbooks |
| title_sort | chop, taste and read: examining stephanie alexander's diary cookbooks |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15996 |