Jennifer Cognard-Black is professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she teaches the novel, Victorian adaptations, women writers, and the literatures of food as well as workshops in creative nonfiction and the short story. Among her awards in teaching and writing, she’s served as a Fulbright Scholar to Slovenia and a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Amsterdam and is the recipient of both a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation fellowship.
Daughter Mother Daughter
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Year: 2021
See more information about Books that Cook: Food & Fiction
Like stories, food can connect us to other people and their experiences in remarkable ways. Much of our lives revolve around the meals we eat, and our culinary senses of taste and smell are potent triggers of the past. This strong, sensory connection between eating and evocation can be used in fiction to conjure a host of emotions in the audience.
In the 10 lectures of Books That Cook: Food & Fiction, Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black takes you on a culinary tour of fiction, from Proust’s evocative madeleine and the voracious hunger of fairy tales to the intersection of recipes with storytelling and the emotional consumption of food on film. These lessons look at how food can be so much more than mere set dressing in a great story. Along the way, you will explore fascinating questions, such as:
How is a recipe like a story?
What are we really consuming when we read or watch stories about food?
How does food help us connect with other people - and better understand ourselves?
What are the political dimensions of food?
With Professor Cognard-Black as your guide, you will sample some tasty tales, sink your teeth into novels featuring cooks and chefs, enjoy food fairy tales, become a culinary tourist, and learn how food can serve up social justice, create visual feasts, and even change how we think.
In the 10 lectures of Books That Cook: Food & Fiction, Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black takes you on a culinary tour of fiction, from Proust’s evocative madeleine and the voracious hunger of fairy tales to the intersection of recipes with storytelling and the emotional consumption of food on film. These lessons look at how food can be so much more than mere set dressing in a great story. Along the way, you will explore fascinating questions, such as:
How is a recipe like a story?
What are we really consuming when we read or watch stories about food?
How does food help us connect with other people - and better understand ourselves?
What are the political dimensions of food?
With Professor Cognard-Black as your guide, you will sample some tasty tales, sink your teeth into novels featuring cooks and chefs, enjoy food fairy tales, become a culinary tourist, and learn how food can serve up social justice, create visual feasts, and even change how we think.
Medium: Audible.com
Year: 2021
Patti (Spady) Ross graduated from Washington, DC’s Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts, The American University and The Keller Graduate School of Management. As a lifetime learner, Patti holds a certificate in Writing for Social Justice from the University of California, Berkeley. After high-school graduation, she performed with several local theatre companies in the Washington region.
I am a writer, having been published in mostly collegiate magazines since 1983. I earned a Master of Science in Journalism degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and completed an editing summer course at the University of Chicago Graham School. I have always been excited about writing; first as an elementary school student creating poetry, as a teenager writing about young romance and social behavior, and then as an adult writing magazine articles about college careers.
Sylvia Jones is a writer, educator, and prison abolitionist. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She’s associate poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press and works part-time teaching creative writing and composition at Goucher College and The George Washington University. She also is reader for the journal, Ploughshares.
Melanie Figg (MFA, PCC) is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Trace (named one of the Best Inde Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews), and a poetry chapbook, Hurry, Love. She is currently working on a hybrid memoir. Melanie's poems, personal essays, and book reviews are published or forthcoming in dozens of literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Nimrod, The Rumpus, and the American Poetry Review. She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and others.