Recipe (Scrap)Books

Third session of the seminar organized within the research project Paper Bonds. Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and the Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East, developped within AV ČR-CNRS Tandem Program supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences, CNRS and CEFRES.

Date: June 5 2026, 14:00
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81257545285?pwd=8fyzo9rn13xFoqBHq5nkvvon2jKmAH.1)
Language: English

Speakers
Albena SHKODROVA
(KU Leuven)
Félixe KAZI–TANI (ENSBA; Villa Arson; Montpellier Paul Valéry; ENS de Lyon, Ihrim)

Abstract

This session will raise questions about the political content of homemade and self-published recipe books, the transmission of family or community traditions, but also feminine and collective authorship.

Félixe Kazi-Tani has worked, among other things, on a collaborative recipe book based on The Whoever said Dykes Can’t Cook Cookbook by Victoria Ramstetter & Maya Contenta (1983 – also see: Qui c’est qu’affortit que les fénarettes savaient pas faire le manger?, Saint-Étienne, Tem-Press, 2024), and Albena Shkodrova is the author of Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).

Please find the complete program of the Paper Bonds seminar here.