Are You Our Next Guest Editor?
We're building out our editorial calendar for 2025 and would love to work with you!
Dear RP subscribers,
We’ve just wrapped up posting for our Fall 2024 Issue on “Recipes And/As Images,” guest edited by Alexandra Macdonald. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you’ll want to click over to read posts on video games and the immigrant culinary experience; sixteenth-century Chinese illustrations of very cool picnic baskets; advertisements for wheat adoption in WWII-era Sri Lanka; tablescapes and American identity in the early Republic; British baking in nineteenth-century France; the spatial and visual influence of the trade in mastic on the Greek island of Chios; FDA-regulations as they pertained to “Mellorine” in the twentieth-century U.S.; recipes involving lots of ketchup; women’s portrayals in “modern” appliance advertising; and reflections on the interaction between memory and the senses in family cooking. All of this in just one issue of The Recipes Project!
As this link-up list should make clear, each issue of The Recipes Project coheres around a theme (often selected by a guest editor), but contributors take that theme in directions that reflect their own research interests, experiences, and curiosities. Our Summer 2024 issue, guest-edited by Kelli Kimura, focused on the theme of “Community Cookbooks.” Again, our contributors’ posts ranged widely in geographical scope and theme, from British school fundraisers in the 1970s, to anti-poverty organizing in U.S. cities, to Bengali home cooks archiving recipes, to reproductive rights activists compiling cookbook-like “bread bags” filled with information on reproductive care.
As we look to fill out our editorial calendar for 2025, we are excited to feature more of this expansive, engaging, and exciting work on recipes, inspired by the themes, ideas, or questions that occupy you, our readers. We invite prospective guest editors to submit proposals for our Spring and Autumn 2025 issues to recipesproject@brocku.ca by December 15. Proposals of around 150 to 250 words should elaborate a central theme or idea you hope to pursue in the issue.
Past themes include digital archives and recipes (Spring 20204), recipes as literature (Autumn 2023), and recipes and playfulness (Winter 2023). Editors whose proposals are accepted will work with a member of the RP’s editorial team to craft a Call for Posts and distribute it widely; to review submissions and select posts for the issue; to write an Introduction for the issue; and to edit posts in advance of publication.
We cannot wait to hear read your ideas for the future of The Recipes Project!
—The RP Editorial Team