Publications or pre-print drafts can be accessed through McGill University’s E-scholarship platform or on SSRN.
Selected Publications
Cooke, Nathalie, and Shelley Boyd. “Canadian Literary Fare.” Illustrated by Alexia Moyer. McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2023.
Cooke, Nathalie, Anna Dysert, and Merika Ramundo. “Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare?” In Collections Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums. Eds. Jason Camlot, Martha Langford & Linda Morra. Routledge, January 2023. 75-90.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Reflecting on Home and Away – Over a Canadian Meal.” in A Taste of Home: Les saveurs de chez soi. Eds Ylenia De Luca and Oriana Palusci. Hamilton, ON: Guernica World Editions, September 2022. 1-40.
Cooke, Nathalie. “An Introduction to the Illustrated Menu Collection.” Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2022. DOI: 10.5040/9781350934351.001.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Sharing Food and Fun, but Not Necessarily all the Recipe Ingredients,” Occasional Papers of the Culinary Historians of Canada New Series (1, September 2021): 18-23.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Leehu Sigler. “Riddling Menus: A History,” Petits Propos Culinaires, by Prospect Books 120 (August 2021). 13-45.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Leehu Sigler, “Entertaining Edibles: Riddling Practices in English Recipes and Menus,” Repast, Quarterly Publication of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor, Vol XXXVII, No.2 (Spring 2021), 6-10.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Nora Shaalan. “Database Dishes.” In The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Edited by Julie M. Porterfield. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2021.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Vanns Spices: Blending Food, Women’s Friendship and Business in 1980s Baltimore.” Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment 28, no. 4 (15 October 2020): 297-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2020.1826710
Cooke, Nathalie. “Montreal in the Culinary Imagination.” In Canadian Culinary Imaginations. Eds. Boyd, Shelley, and Dorothy Barenscott. McGill-Queen’s University Press, July 2020. 117-145.
Cooke, Nathalie, Shelley Boyd, and Alexia Moyer. “A Literary History of the Mandarin Orange in Canada.” Gastronomica 20, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 83-89. DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2020.20.1.83
Cooke, Nathalie. “The Black Whale Cookbook.” In Many Women, Many Voices, Stories from McGill Collections. Eds. Cooke, Nathalie, Frédéric Giuliano, Christopher Lyons, Gwendolyn Owens, Jacquelyn Sundberg, and Mary Yearl. Montreal: McGill Library, 2018. 96-7.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Stories of Rice Lake — Stewards, Settlers and Storytellers.” Food and Landscape, Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Ed. Mark McWilliams. London: Prospect Books, July 2018. 99-109.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Writing the Chinese Restaurateur into the Canadian Literary Landscape.” Studies in Canadian Literature 42, no. 2 (2017). Released June 2018: 5-25.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Alexia Moyer. “Measuring Out Life in Coffee Spoons: Canadian Literary Breakfasts.” In CuiZine : The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures 8, no. 1 (2017). Released 12 June 2018.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Shelley Boyd. “What is ‘Restaurant Literature’? Depictions of Chinese Restaurants in Canadian Literature.” A CanLit Guide (pedagogical initiative of the journal Canadian Literature), launched on 6 November 2017. See http://canlitguides.ca/nathalie-cooke/what-is-restaurant-literature-depictions-of-chinese-restaurants-in-canadian-literature/
Catharine Parr Traill’s ‘The Female Emigrant’s Guide’, Cooking with a Canadian Classic. Eds. Cooke, Nathalie, and Fiona Lucas. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, June 2017.
Invited Lectures and Keynote Addresses
Cooke, Nathalie. “Reflecting on Home and Away – Over a Canadian Meal.” Keynote for Canada: Sapori di casa – A Taste of Home: Les saveurs de chez soi. Bari, Italy. Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Modo. 14 November 2019.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Food Spokespersonalities of the Twentieth Century.” At Canada’s Table, Fort York, Toronto. 19 October 2019.
Exhibitions
Cooke, Nathalie, Kristen Howard, Leehu Sigler, Octavian Sopt, Jacquelyn Sundberg. Food for Thought: Riddles and Riddling Ways. Montreal: McLennan Library, 1 February – 1 July 2022.
Cooke, Nathalie, Irina Mihalache, and Elizabeth Ridolfo. Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada. Toronto: Coach House Press, May 2018. (A catalogue to accompany a co-curated exhibition at the Fisher Library in Toronto, launched 24 May 2018.) An audioguide of the exhibition is available here.
Presentations, Panels and Roundtables
Cooke, Nathalie. Invited Panelist. “The Future of Food Studies.” The pre-conference of the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) at Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, UBC, Vancouver. 2 June 2019.
Cooke, Nathalie. Presenter. “What is Canadian Cuisine.” Presentation for McGill Alumni community, The Waring House, Picton, Ontario. 16 September 2018.
Conference Papers
Cooke, Nathalie. “Sharing Food, and Fun, But Not All the Recipe Ingredients,” Panel on Rural Women: Recipes and Remembering at Rural Women’s Studies Association Conference, 14 May 2021. Virtual presentation.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Shelley Boyd. “CanLit Fare: Food Scenes in Canadian Literature.” For the panel entitled “Eat Your Words,” Congress of Humanities & Social Science (ACCUTE), UBC, Vancouver. 1 June 2019.
Cooke, Nathalie. “How was One to Know? Validating Medicinal and Nutritional Information when Every(wo)man was Her Own Doctor.” Amsterdam Symposium of Food and History. University of Amsterdam. 15 November 2018.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Riddle me this? What stories can a cookbook, that is not a cookbook, tell?” Presentation for the First Biannual Conference on Food and Communication, Queen Margaret’s University, Edinburgh. 6 September 2018.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Riddle me This? When is a Cookbook not a Cookbook?” Presentation for the Collections Thinking Conference, Concordia University. 12 June 2018.
Cooke, Nathalie. “The Time Was Right for Curry Salt.” Conference on Food, Cultures and Migrations. U Massachusetts, Dartmouth. 15-16 September 2017.
Cooke, Nathalie, and Deena Yanofsky. “GIS Lite and Online Visualization Tools in the Humanities Classroom.” CARTO 2017 conference on Digital Revolutions. SFU, Vancouver. 21 June 2017.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Riddle me This? When is a Cookbook not a Cookbook?” Presentation for Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture. Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University. 31 May 2017.
Cooke, Nathalie. “Recipes in Doncaster: Decades Later, Enigmas Still.” Presentation for ACEF/FSAC, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada. Congress for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Ryerson University. 28 May 2017.
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