Bibliographic record
Abstract
Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes. By Diane Tye. (Montreal: McGillQueen's University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 268, list of recipes, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, works cited, index. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)Baking as Biography is less a story than an evocation of the meanings of baking in die life of Laurene Tye and odier homemakers during die middle twentieth century. Written by her daughter, Canadian folklorist Diane Tye, Baking breaks new methodological ground, transcending genres in a work that is simultaneously scholarly and profoundly personal. Besides making a solid contribution to interdisciplinary research on women's lives, folklore methods, and food studies, Tye's narrative demonstrates die complexities of belonging, caring, and gratitude inherent in family life.Tye's mediod looks to varied source materials to illustrate key points, but she also manages to maintain a sense of wholeness about her subject, conveying a rich portrait of her mother's life. Source materials include recipes and oral history, interpreted from die perspective of food and feminist dieory. For over diree decades, Laurene was married to a minister, so Tye references general studies of ministers' wives, including die journal of L.M. Montgomery (a minister's wife in her own right) as well. As Diane Tye was unable to formally interview her deceased modier, she includes her own reminiscences, set apart in a distinct font. In addition, photographs, recipes (some written by hand on cards) , and die occasional platter-shaped page break symbol contribute to a pleasing, readable, and innovative design.Tye uses her findings to support radier than challenge prevailing narratives about women and food; she has vetted sources for those concepts she finds most valuable and diose diat her family's narrative substantiates. Thus she employs die major figures in food studies (Avakian, Counihan, Douglas, Bourdieu, Mennel, Sack and odiers) in guiding readers to understand the recipes' high quantities of sugar, which dishes were appropriate for which occasions (and why) , and die emotional space of a woman who spent significant time in die kitchen despite an active dislike for cooking and a spouse who regarded food as a mere biological necessity.Tye demonstrates how recipes from Laurene's card file and favorite community cookbook (Tested Sweet Recipes) represent the rhydims of Laurene's life (particularly during child-rearing) , die functions for which she baked (family meals, church socials, women's teas, visiting clergy), and her social networks. The names of recipe contributors recall women she knew well to diose who figured in her life only briefly (though dieir recipes may have had a more lasting impact) . They also echo her husband's work, as he too remembers contributors' names and die struggles through which he worked to support diem. Much of die narrative relies on oral history - from daughter, son, and husband to church colleagues and friends. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".