The symposium I organized at IU last Friday on recipe theft was a joy and a success. The recipe workshop was both enlightening and delicious (more on that to come soon!) and the online response to our panel presentations was tremendous. I’m so grateful to all of the friends and family who have supported me…
Stealing Recipes? A Symposium
STEALING RECIPES?OWNERSHIP CLAIMS AND THE CULINARY COMMONS April 21, 2023 | 2pm – 4pm EDT | GISB 1118 & Zoom The recipe — as an artifact, a set of claims and a coalescence of labors — exists in a tension between private property and informally governed knowledge commons. In the ever-expanding field of contemporary food media,…
Text and Visual Context
Last summer was my first foray into the field for my dissertation research on the German recipe industry. I set out to study how recipe authors transform the fragrant, splatteringly sensorial experience of cooking into tidy prose, and I learned so much from my interviews and observation. The biggest surprise of the summer was the…
Petty Aunts and Stolen Broccoli
Who owns a recipe? How do you know? Does it matter? The answers to these questions are not absolute or universal, but rather rooted in beliefs about skill, expertise, knowledge, and the value of food and cooking. Consider how the characters in this absurdly catchy (and recently viral) TikTok music video would respond to the…
The Illegitimate Tent: My article published in Food and Foodways!
It turns out I had quite a bit to say about these domes! I’ve had an article published in the scholarly journal Food and Foodways (a significant career milestone for me!) that explores what these domes say about inequality in San Francisco and the contested boundary between public and private space. This article is a…
Ariana Gunderson 