Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
RETHINKING THE LITERARY AVANT-GARDE THROUGH FOOD
PROPOSING A NEW CATEGORY OF GASTRONOMIC LITERATURE WHERE FOOD AND LANGUAGE INTERPENETRATE
METHODOLOGY: LEVERAGING M. F. K. FISHER’S CULINARY BRICOLAGE
THE MODERN TABLE: A DISCUSSION OF THE CHAPTERS
ODE TO THE FUTURISTS
GERTRUDE STEIN’S AVANT-GARDE EATING
JULIA CHILD’S ART OF THE ORDINARY
Soup
Sauces
Eggs
Poultry
Meat
Vegetables
DIGESTIBLE FORMS: READING FOODS AND EATING POEMS
CHAPTER 2: Postwar Culinary Pop
POPPY CANNON’S ART OF HIGH-SPEED CUISINE
FRANK O’HARA’S FAST-FOOD LOVE LYRICS
THE END—OR NOT—OF FAST CONSUMPTION
CHAPTER 3: The “Recyclable Soul” of Food
VERTAMAE SMART-GROSVENOR’S “BELLY LORE” AND RECIPE POLITICS
Foods
Texts
Bodies
HARRYETTE MULLEN’S SUPERMARKET POETICS
Foods
Texts
Bodies
THE POLITICS OF READING AS CONSUMPTION
CHAPTER 4: The Work of Art in the Age of Artful Food
AVANT-GARDE META-CUISINES: CULINARY SPECTACLE AND THE CHEF-ARTIST
AVANT-GARDE FOOD “HAPPENINGS”: FEAST ART, EDIBLE DESIGNS, AND THE ARTIST-CHEF
FROM FOOD ART TO FOOD ACTIVISM
AVANT-GARDE ART AND CRITICAL FOOD STUDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
EPILOGUE: The Last Course
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX