Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity

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"In Inventing Authenticity Carrie Helms Tippen deftly dissects the layers of sentiment built up around recipes purported to be from the South. She examines many 'Souths, ' each of them claiming to be the real thing, and finds that they all have their own mythologies and incorrect assumptions. If you want to delve beneath the stereotypes and discover how even modern-day southerners have used recipes to construct their own Neverland, Tippen will instruct and surprise you."–Rebecca Sharpless, author of The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South