Related Guides
Background Sources
- "Recipes," in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics Recipes are the instructions for preparing an item or description of a process to accomplish a final product. They also represent a style of literary writing described as “discourse” and can be structured in multiple different ways, depending on the product, the author, or the audience. Recipes are featured in many different formats, such as books, blogs, memoirs, websites, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and still by word of mouth.
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offers an authoritative, comprehensive overview of and introduction to this growing field of research.
- The Routledge companion to travel writing The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture; Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures; Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism; Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2nd ed.) Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.
