Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks

by Carrie Helms Tippen

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, the cookbook tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative of the region is often one of pain, loss, privation, exploitation, poverty, and suffering of various kinds. While some cookbook writers go to great lengths to avoid reminding readers of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496854799
• ISBN13: 9781496854797
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 272 Pages