Recipes for Reading Recipes? Culinary Writing and the Stakes of Multiethnic Pseudonarrative

Authors

Delores B. Phillips, Old Dominion University

Abstract

This article analyzes the contradictory positions assumed by cultural critics who consider recipes a form of narrative, resolving that recipes function as pseudonarratives on which critics can graft any cultural narrative they wish. The article uses unnatural narratology to address how recipes deconstruct the naturalness of narrative and their importance as a tool to grant literacy to groups denied it.

Recommended Citation

Phillips, Delores B. (2020) "Recipes for Reading Recipes? Culinary Writing and the Stakes of Multiethnic Pseudonarrative," Narrative Culture: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/narrative/vol7/iss1/5