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Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Nieto, Nicole K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437039887

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
In August 2005, New Orleans and surrounding communities suffered catastrophic damage and loss of life when Hurricane Katrina reached landfall. When the levees surrounding the city of New Orleans broke, homes were flooded and lives were lost. Community members began to rebuild their homes as well as their culture including food, music and art. This project examines the role that the New Orleans culinary heritage played in rebuilding and recovering the city. I am primarily concerned with cookbooks published after Hurricane Katrina as well as The Times-Picayune newspaper recipe column, “Rebuilding New Orleans Recipe by Recipe”. I examine the cookbooks and recipe column using discourses of feminist analysis, material culture, continuity and tradition. I am most interested in the ways that cookbooks and recipes helped to rebuild the community and city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. I suggest a fifth cookbook plot, the recovery plot, to Anne Bower’s narrative framework of community cookbooks. In the recovery plot, I suggest cookbooks do the important work of creating continuity and opportunities for recovery after loss. This project suggests cookbooks and recipes were an integral component of cultural recovery after Hurricane Katrina and were in fact a way to share narratives of loss and recovery about the storm and flooding.
Linda Mizejewski (Advisor)
Amy Shuman (Committee Co-Chair)
Guisela LaTorre (Committee Member)
172 p.
American Studies; Folklore; Gender; Gender Studies
New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina; recipes; cookbooks; culinary heritage; recovery; cooking; foodways; folklore; material culture; feminist analysis; tradition; nostalgia

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  • Nieto, N. K. (2015). Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437039887

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nieto, Nicole. Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437039887.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nieto, Nicole. "Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437039887

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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