'The Flavors Mix Together Slowly': Cooking Connections in Picture-Cookbooks
In Bilal Cooks Daal, Aisha Saeed's narrative combines with Anoosha Syed's bright illustrations to tell the story of a Pakistani American boy and his friends helping his father make daal. The recipe at the end of Bilal Cooks Daal makes this picturebook a cookbook as well, and the narrative...
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Published in | Bookbird Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 28 - 40 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2021
Bookbird, Inc |
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Summary: | In Bilal Cooks Daal, Aisha Saeed's narrative combines with Anoosha Syed's bright illustrations to tell the story of a Pakistani American boy and his friends helping his father make daal. The recipe at the end of Bilal Cooks Daal makes this picturebook a cookbook as well, and the narrative is as embedded in the recipe as the recipe is in the narrative, thus building community through connections within the text and among readers. This article examines picturebooks that offer stories about cooking, with a focus on the commensal connections these cookery narratives make between generations and communities and brings to the surface the values promulgated by these narratives. |
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ISSN: | 0006-7377 1918-6983 1918-6983 |
DOI: | 10.1353/bkb.2021.0007 |