The Rhetoric of Recipes: Food Pedagogy in the Pandemic

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Miriam Horne
Zoë Campos

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Food is a powerful tool with which to engage students in critical academic work.  This paper describes the work of a professor and her student, and their experiences using recipes to study rhetoric.  The paper describes three moments of learning:  genre and bread baking, power dynamics and key lime pie, and rhetorical appeals in family recipes.  The paper also argues that this learning was successful, in part, because food offered a comfortable way into learning after the challenges of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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