Citations:foodoir

English citations of foodoir

Noun: "a memoir that focuses on food and/or includes recipes"

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• 2002 — Caroline Stacey, "Half-baked history", The Independent, 6 July 2002:

  A hybrid of memoir sensually larded with recipes, the foodoir belongs in the bedroom or on the beach, not the kitchen.

• 2009 — Christine Muhlke, "Heartburn", The New York Times, 29 May 2009:

  The foodoir was popularized by the likes of Frances Mayes and Ruth Reichl, who wrote eloquently of lazy Italian plumbers and revolutionary West Coast restaurants, punctuating their musings with recipes that brought the flavors of their stories onto the reader’s plate — that is, if readers wanted to get their hardcover splattered.

• 2009 — Dianna Marder, "Beach reads for foodies", Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 July 2009:

  Foodoirs are celebrity confessionals or tell-alls. In more sentimental varieties of the foodoir, the author embarks on an emotional journey, returning to his or her ancestors' roots (and perhaps, by extension, root vegetables). Many have recipes, too.

• 2009 — Christine Muhlke, "Kiss the Cook", The New York Times, 3 December 2009:

  These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.

• 2009 — Nicolette Hahn Niman, "'Cleaving,' by Julie Powell", San Francisco Chronicle, 6 December 2009:

  "Cleaving" is one in a growing genre of so-called "foodoirs," memoirs with recipes.

• 2010 — Shelley Boettcher, "Open a new 'foodoir' and get inspired to cook", Nanaimo Daily News, 23 January 2010:

  Vocabulary update: Here's a new word to add to your vocabulary: foodoir.