Bites From the Past: Exploring the Culinary Significance of Family Recipes
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Title
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Bites From the Past: Exploring the Culinary Significance of Family Recipes
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Creator
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Wyatt Smith
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Exit Requirement
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Undergraduate Honors Thesis
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Date of Award
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6/17/2024
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Honors Program Director
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Gavin Keulks
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Faculty Advisor
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Kenneth Kirby
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Abstract
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Food scholarship is a field that has gone through much change since its origins, and its future can only be guessed. Knowing where our food comes from and how it connects us to the people of the past is not only an enriching activity mentally but can bring some solace and help us recognize that history is the study of people. Combining my two interests in culinary arts and history, this project will allow me to dive into the past and help recover my mom’s recipes from before she passed away. I will connect those recipes to the people of the past. This project will explore questions such as: What is food scholarship? How can we contribute to the field of food scholarship? How does the family cookbook contribute to food scholarship in meaningful ways? To answer these questions, I will examine texts on food scholarship, analyze early American cookbooks as forms of food scholarship, and ask and potentially answer questions about the future of food scholarship and cookbooks in our digital age. This project aims not only to recover recipes from my past but also to turn them into a primary source and piece of food scholarship to help others springboard their pursuits in the field. When I am done, I will have 10 recipes that not only stand on their own as meals but provide a small insight into the history of their ingredients; I will have a literature review on what food scholarship is today as well as what its future may look like, and I will conclude with a reflective essay on what I learned and what influenced me and motivated me in the creation of the mini-cookbook.
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Type
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Text
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Department
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Honors
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Language
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eng
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Rights
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https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
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Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 6/29/2024, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author.
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Identifier
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honors_073024n
