American Community Cookbooks
Don Lindgren and Mark Germer, UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place volume I, Biddeford, Maine, Rabelais Inc., $50.00.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27848Keywords:
American Cookbooks, Community, Place, American, Cookbooks, review article, committee cookbooks, fundraising, women, female solidrity, ideology, cookbook genresAbstract
This review article looks at a survey volume of American Community Cookbooks and analyses the importance of this particular cookbook genre.
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