A Life in Recipes: Between Craft, Practice, and the Social Conditions of Food Culture

This is a historical anthropological project centered on handwritten recipes and notes about food and meals. The focus is on women’s informal, often invisible food labor. The project involves the collection and analysis of recipes and notes written and compiled by women. The recipe book is understood as a life narrative, bearing both material and immaterial traces—a food heritage inscribed between handwriting and history that tells stories of women, everyday life, and social change. Between the lines, it speaks of lives lived, everyday meals and festive food, memories, and care. It encompasses cultural history, food culture, and women’s work within the invisible structures of everyday life.