Journal article
Recipe-Collecting, Embodied Imagination, and Transatlantic Connections in an Irish Emigrant’s Cooking
Canadian journal of Irish studies, Vol.41, pp.100-123
01/01/2018
Abstract
Derry emigrant Agnes McCloskey Heffernan’s collected recipes, both handwritten and clipped from newspapers between the 1880s and about 1920, widen our view of Irish food, migration, and memory beyond the paradigm of famine and loss. Her cooking, with its use of Maria Parloa’s recipes and its similarity to steamship cuisine of the time, both symbolized and shaped a social context of middle-class emigrant and Irish-American ambition. At the same time, the Ulster flavours of her childhood, a remembered cuisine of hearth and heart, may have influenced her reception and reproduction of foodways in America as a cook for paying guests. Her cooking for profit in America, seasoned by remembered tastes, reveals the embodied imagination of a cook in ways that illuminate migration and culinary history.
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- Title
- Recipe-Collecting, Embodied Imagination, and Transatlantic Connections in an Irish Emigrant’s Cooking
- Creators
- Mary F. Wack - Washington State University, Office for Undergraduate Education
- Publication Details
- Canadian journal of Irish studies, Vol.41, pp.100-123
- Academic Unit
- Office for Undergraduate Education
- Publisher
- Canadian Association for Irish Studies
- Identifiers
- 99900599647201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article