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Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer
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Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer

By
​Katelyn Juerjens
/ 15 June 2020

Cookbooks are rarely read as political or even narrative texts. However, alongside the recipes and lists of ingredients is often rich information about the ideologies and social structures that the foods are consumed within.

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