http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/ A National Blog of Literature & Discussion Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/#comment-3503 Joelle Biele Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:36:43 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=3305#comment-3503 Along these lines, I'm wondering what you make of the closure of Gourmet? Along these lines, I’m wondering what you make of the closure of Gourmet?

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/#comment-3493 Aaron Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:45:18 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=3305#comment-3493 nice write Michael. See you in class tomorrow. nice write Michael. See you in class tomorrow.

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/#comment-3489 Sunday News « Mixtapes for Hookers Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:06:15 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=3305#comment-3489 [...] slow decline of the cookbook writer as food anthropologist. Leave a Comment No Comments Yet so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. [...] [...] slow decline of the cookbook writer as food anthropologist. Leave a Comment No Comments Yet so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. [...]

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/#comment-3480 Bookninja » Blog Archive » Cry of the disappointed connesuir Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56:08 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=3305#comment-3480 [...] What ever happened to the old days when cookbook writers were anthropologists? Um, there were old days when cookbook writers were anthropologists? Oh. Really? Well, what happened to them? I’ll tell you what: spiral binding. Joan and her generation of food writers had an entire world to discover. The work of Craig Claiborne, James Beard, Claudia Roden, Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, and Diana Kennedy introduced Americans to the great cuisines of the world, as well as many great regional cuisines of the United States. All of these food writers employed what one might call an anthropological or descriptivist approach to food writing. They visited home cooks and chefs in their kitchens, beat the pavement, and found recipes in dusty archives. Such cookbook authors still exist (Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford, for example) but today the shelves of your local bookstore are dominated by what one might call the prescriptivist approach to writing cookbooks. Share Bookninja with your 2.0 friends: [...] [...] What ever happened to the old days when cookbook writers were anthropologists? Um, there were old days when cookbook writers were anthropologists? Oh. Really? Well, what happened to them? I’ll tell you what: spiral binding. Joan and her generation of food writers had an entire world to discover. The work of Craig Claiborne, James Beard, Claudia Roden, Julia Child, Marcella Hazan, and Diana Kennedy introduced Americans to the great cuisines of the world, as well as many great regional cuisines of the United States. All of these food writers employed what one might call an anthropological or descriptivist approach to food writing. They visited home cooks and chefs in their kitchens, beat the pavement, and found recipes in dusty archives. Such cookbook authors still exist (Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford, for example) but today the shelves of your local bookstore are dominated by what one might call the prescriptivist approach to writing cookbooks. Share Bookninja with your 2.0 friends: [...]

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/09/18/food-anthropologist/#comment-3478 Online Book Store and News - In the News: Editing With the Queen, Moby D–k Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:11 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=3305#comment-3478 [...] writers used to be more like anthropologists, visiting kitchens in far-flung parts of the world and scouring [...] [...] writers used to be more like anthropologists, visiting kitchens in far-flung parts of the world and scouring [...]

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