The recipe in its cultural contexts / Janet Floyd and Laurel Forester -- Traditions. Of recipe books and reading in the nineteenth century: Mrs. Beeton and her cultural consequences / Margaret Beetham -- Redefining rudimentary narrative: women's nineteenth century manuscript cookbooks / Andrea K. Newlyn -- Talking recipes: What Mrs. Fisher knows and the African -American cookbook tradition / Andrew Warnes -- Domesticating imperialism: curry and cookbooks in Victorian England / Susan Zlotnick -- In close touch with her government: women and the domestic science movement in World War One propaganda / Celia M. Kingsbury -- Individual interventions. The importance of being greedy: connoisseurship and domesticity in the writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell / Talia Schaffer -- Simple, honest food: Elizabeth David and the construction of nationin cookery writing / Janet Floyd -- Contemporary contexts. Liberating the recipe: a study of the relationship between food and feminism in the early 1970s / Laurel Forster -- Regulation and creativity: the use of recipes in contemporary fiction / Sarah Sceats -- Nigella bites the naked chef: the sexual and the sensual in television cookery programmes / Maggie Andrews -- Adapting and adopting: the migrating recipe / Marine de Camargo Heck.