Stories in My Mother's Recipes

Diane Tye, from MUN's Department of Folklore, invites us into her mother’s kitchen! From oatcakes, tea biscuits and chocolate chip cookies to strawberry Jell-O squares, her mother's recipes for simple everyday foods contain surprisingly complex subtexts that speak of her life as a wife, mother and church woman in Nova Scotia from the 1950s to the 1980s. These instructions tell stories of region, class and religion and, at the same time that they reflect her mother's gendered social responsibilities, they hint at ways in which she and other women of her generation resisted those expectations.

In celebration of the relationships between cooking and storytelling, The Blue Castle invites guests to bring along a copy of their favourite recipe and the stories that go along with it.

Stories in My Mother’s Recipes
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8 pm at The Ship Pub (265 Duckworth St., St. John’s). Admission is free.

For more information, contact Sonja Boon (sboon@mun.ca; 737-2551) or check out our blog at www.bluestockingsalon.blogspot.com.