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Dutch, Jennifer Rachel
Western folklore, 06/2018, Volume: 77, Issue: 3/4Journal Article
Community cookbooks are serious business when sold to raise funds for charity. Yet community cookbooks are also venues ripe for humor. Drawing on the notion of “folk parody,” this article examines two types of “parody recipes” found in four community cookbooks that are part of the author’s personal collection: “joke” recipes as “humorous” folk parody and “lesson” recipes as “serious” folk parody. In so doing, the article reveals how folk humor in community cookbooks can serve as a powerful tool for communicating identity within and outside the community that creates them.
