Appalachia on the table : representing mountain food and people / Erica Abrams Locklear.
| Author/creator | Locklear, Erica Abrams author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource (229 pages ) : illustrations (black and white. |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leatherbritches, pickled watermelon, or other "traditional" mountain recipes, Locklear discovered recipes for devil's food cake with coconut icing, grape catsup, and fig pickles. Some recipes even relied on food products like Bisquick, Swans Down flour, and Calumet baking powder. Where, Locklear wondered, did her Appalachian food script come from? And what implicit judgments had she made about her grandmother based on the foods she imagined she would have been interested in cooking? Appalachia on the Table argues, in part, that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and United States, the foods associated with the region and its people have often been used to socially categorize and stigmatize mountain people. But rather than investigate the actual foods consumed in Appalachia, Locklear instead focuses on the representations of foods consumed, implied moral judgments associated with those foods, and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted. The question at the core of Locklear's analysis asks: how did the dominant culinary narrative of the region come into existence and what consequences has that narrative had for people in the mountains?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780820363387 |
| Issued in other form | Original 9780820363400 0820363405 9780820363394 0820363391 |
| Genre/form | Cookbooks. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| ISBN | 9780820363370 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0820363375 (electronic bk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |