Vanishing Culture #2: The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie Livingston
About this episode
Katie Livingston discusses the importance of preserving cookbooks and what they reveal about culture and identity.
Why preserve a cookbook? In the second episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture , host Vida Vojić speaks with Katie Livingston , a doctoral researcher at Stanford University who studies domestic culture and women’s literature. Through the lens of family cookbooks, recipe collections, and food traditions, Katie explores why everyday cultural artifacts deserve preservation and what they can teach us about history, identity, and community. Read Vanishing Culture for free at the Internet Archive or purchase in print: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
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