Carrie Helms Tippen

Carrie Helms Tippen is an assistant professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her book Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (forthcoming August 2018 from University of Arkansas Press) examines the rhetorical value of proving authenticity in contemporary cookbooks.

  • A collage of three literary cookbooks

    Literary Cookbooks

    July 2018
    Carrie Helms Tippen
    I f you’re not one of those people who has a stack of cookbooks on your nightstand already, you might not know that there’s a lot more to read in a cookbook than just the recipes. Cookbooks can be a s…