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Author: Alina Lange

“What’s cooking, Nara Smith?” Culinary Comedy: Online Recipes and Their Parodies

As our project shows, cooking recipes have a long history and their relevance is not declining. Today, the internet and social media provide a seemingly endless well of cooking recipes. Online platforms containing recipes reach from food blogs, by celebrity chefs or laypeople, to Instagram accounts dedicated to the how-to…

How to establish a new book genre; or, are how-to books literature?

We tend to think of the how-to book as a straightforward, unadorned text type. Brevity is its hallmark and plain language its virtue, all in the service of practical implementation. How-to texts are functional texts, they do not lay claim to artistic brilliance. Or do they? When we talk of…