[ecrea] CFP: Cookbooks: Past, Present and Future

I hope those of you interested in food cultures and the history of the 
cookery book might consider offering a paper for this symposium on 2 
March 2019 at University of Portsmouth. Abstracts by 7 Jan 2019:

*Symposium*

*Cookbooks: Past, Present and Future*

* Saturday 2 March 2019, University of Portsmouth*

Keynote speaker: Jack Monroe (food writer & activist); Panellists: Lulu 
Grimes (hub editor, BBC Good Food) and  Katie Quinn (food vlogger & writer)

*Call for Papers*

The cookbook has long occupied an important cultural position. As an 
early printed book it was a prized heirloom treasured across 
generations, and in more recent times it has appeared in diverse forms 
to accommodate a range of eating preferences and cultural interests. The 
contents of a recipe book have been moulded to significant historical 
events, such as frugal cookbooks in wartime, and compiled to celebrate 
important events in the cultural calendar,with cookery books for 
Christmas feasting or birthday parties. Cookbook writers have recorded 
social change by focussing on different life stages and social groups at 
particular historical moments, including the Victorian child and the 
modern housewife. Some cookbook writers have, through extensive media 
exposure, sought the mantle of celebrity. However, in broader ways 
cookery books, alongside their writers and readers, have entered the 
cultural imagination through novels, films, and television programmes, 
even going on to influence adjunctive fields such as art and tourism. 
Additionally, the recipe book can be understood as a cultural text, even 
a language which offers meaning through subjective identity, creative 
expression and lifestyle choices. Increasingly, however, with the turn 
to the online world, we question whether this traditional collection of 
recipes is in danger of being replaced by easily-available single recipe 
internet searches. This symposium will consider the history of the 
cookbook, its cultural proliferation and significance, and its future in 
the cyber world, the smart home and the internet of things.

Papers might include:

●Aspects of the history of the cookery book

●Diverse forms and formats of the cookery book

●Social, historical, political or cultural moments      recorded by the 
cookery book

●The cookery book as expression of subjectivity, creativity or lifestyle

●Celebrity cookbook writers

●The cultural reach of the cookery book

●The future of recipes online, in the smart home and the internet of things


*Please send abstracts of 300 words to **(laurel.forster /at/ port.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(laurel.forster /at/ port.ac.uk)>*by 7 January 2019. *

*Acceptance will be confirmed by mid January 2019. *



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