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ISBN-10: 1501367102
ISBN-13: 9781501367106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publish Date: 06/30/2022
Dimensions: 0.00" L, 0.00" W, 0.00" H

Recipe

Editor: Christopher Schaberg
Editor: Ian Bogost

Paperback

Price: $14.95

Overview

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process. These include lessons in hospitality, friendship, community, family and ethnic heritage, tradition, nutrition, precision and order, invention and improvisation, feasting and famine, survival and seduction and love. A recipe is a signature, as individual as the cook’s fingerprint; a passport to travel the world without leaving the kitchen; a lifeline for people in hunger and in want; and always a means to expand one’s worldview, if not waistline.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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"Lynn Bloom's Recipe celebrates the complications and contradictions, the serious and play, the bounty and scarcity, represented by the simple instructions that put food on the table. This book, like the object itself, 'exists as much in the imagination' as on the plate, a satisfying examination of the marvelous 'process and promise' of the humble recipe." –Karen Babine, author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life
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Details

ISBN-10: 1501367102
ISBN-13: 9781501367106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publish Date: 06/30/2022
Dimensions: 0.00" L, 0.00" W, 0.00" H
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