Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 5 "The Main Best Eating in the World": Responding to Past and Current Food Narratives. ch. 2 Competing Culinary Discourses: Writing Food in Early Twentieth-Century Appalachia -- ch. 3 Writers Respond: Critiquing the Live at Home Program -- ch. 4 "Feeling Poor and Ashamed": Food Stigmas in Appalachia -- ch. 5 "The Main Best Eating in the World": Responding to Past and Current Food Narratives.
Summary:
"When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leatherbritches, pickled watermelon, or other "traditional" mountain recipes, Locklear discovered recipes for devil's food cake with coconut icing, grape catsup, and fig pickles. Some recipes even relied on food products like Bisquick, Swans Down flour, and Calumet baking powder. Where, Locklear wondered, did her Appalachian food script come from? And what implicit judgments had she made about her grandmother based on the foods she imagined she would have been interested in cooking? Appalachia on the Table argues, in part, that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and United States, the foods associated with the region and its people have often been used to socially categorize and stigmatize mountain people. But rather than investigate the actual foods consumed in Appalachia, Locklear instead focuses on the representations of foods consumed, implied moral judgments associated with those foods, and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted. The question at the core of Locklear's analysis asks: how did the dominant culinary narrative of the region come into existence and what consequences has that narrative had for people in the mountains?"-- Provided by publisher.
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