Can anyone expand Jon Miller enthusiam for the erotic in cookbooks. Now that
is where Hugh Hefrner never been..or has he?
Martin Platts
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> From: "litcrit" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: UPDATE: Food and Culture (12/10/01; SW/TX PCA/ACA,
2/13/02-2/17/02)
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:56:39 -0500
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> New deadline: 12/10/01
>
>   CFP: FOOD AND CULTURE 12/10/01  ALBUQUERQUE 2/13-17/02
>
> Call for Papers:  Food and Culture 11/15/01
> Albuquerque   2/13-17/02
>
> This call for papers is for the Food and Culture Area of the
> Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Regional Conference,
> which will be held February 13th-17th at the Albuquerque Hilton in
> Albuquerque NM.
>
> Despite the title of the conference, this area has had international
> guests in its two year history.  Among our presenters, we have had Erika
> Endrijonas, Sherrie Inness, author of Kitchen Culture:  Popular
> Representations of American Women in Cooking, and Carole Counihan, editor
> of The Anthropology of Food and Body:  Gender, Meaning and Power, and
> co-editor of the upcoming Food, Feminism and Food (along with previous
> presenters Darla Williams and Beverly Skinner), and Anne L. Bower, editor
> of the reclaimed The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro.
>
> Previous presentations have included:
>
> "It's a Conspiracy:  Nature+Nuture=3DFat"
> "An Edible Account:  Food in Colonial American Travel
> Narratives"
> "The Meaning of Food in Toni Morrison's Beloved:  Feast
> or Famine?"
> "Political Commensality in Anna and the King"
> "Gardens of Subsistence and Health"
> "A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine and Thou Beside Me in
> the Kitchen: The Erotic in Cookbooks"
>
> This year, we'd like to see as many varied panels as possible.  While
> we're always happy to have presentations such as we've listed above, there
> are so many more aspects of Food and Culture to explore, such as:
>
> Sugar, Sugar:  The Cadence and Calories of Courting
> Fast cars, Fast Women and Fast food:  How the Fast Food
> Culture Shapes Americans
> "At Least You Can Eat Like a Man": Gender in Food
> Commercials
> Taking the Whiners out of the Winery:  Food Museums and
> Displays
> California Kosher:  The New Multicultural Cookbooks
> Presidential Pantries:  From the White House to the
> Neighbor's House
> Chocolate Chemistry and Psychology
>
> Please send a 300-400 word abstract no later than Nov.
> 15 to
>
> Amy Becker-Chambless
> Dept. of English
> MS 3091
> Texas Tech University
> Lubbock, TX 79409
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> amy.becker-chambless.ttu.edu
>
> Electronic submissions are encouraged, as is advance warning on any
> scheduling concerns and equipment needs.  While we cannot guarantee that
> we can answer all of them, we will certainly try!
>
> For more information, see our websites at
>
>          http://www.swtexaspca.org
>
http://www.Hilton.com/en/h./groups/private_groups/pca2002/index.jhtml
>          http://www2.h-net.msu/edu/~swpca
>
> If you wish to have your books at the show, please contact Judy Lohr at
>
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