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The Edible Essay: Writing a Culinary Memoir, with Recipes

A recipe is a slice of history—an archival document that offers information about the author-cook’s complex identity. In this workshop, participants will work with Professor Cognard-Black to consider the recipe as a form of storytelling and meaning-making all its own—and will also have the opportunity to excavate one of their own recipes to write a culinary memoir or “Edible Essay.” Bringing in a favorite, cherished, despised, secret, and/or “lost” recipe from their own family or background, participants will discuss what aspects of individual and collective memory are contained within these recipes. Participants will then have the opportunity to engage in writing prompts that will launch their own “Edible Essay."

Jennifer is Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a public honors college, where she teaches a number of subjects, including women novelists, Victorian literature and adaptation, fiction writing, and the literatures of food. A two-time Fulbright Scholar to Slovenia and the Netherlands, Cognard-Black has published a writing textbook as well as two books on Victorian novels and letters by Anglo-American women, and she is also the co-editor of two other collections, including From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines and Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. Writing under the pseudonym J. Annie MacLeod, her short stories have been nominated the Pushcart prize and have appeared in journals such as So To Speak, Versal, Poem Memoir Story, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among others. Cognard-Black is the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council award for fiction as well as a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation grant and has produced two lecture series with The Great Courses, including one on writing essays and another on American short fiction. In 2020, she was selected as the winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University. You can learn more about Jennifer at her website: www.jennifercognard-black.com