The third part of a multi-part series exploring time and space in (Manchu) recipe literature and in translation has just been posted at The Recipes Project. You can find it here. This one focuses on exploring the work of “if”-ness in recipe literature, and it includes a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure translation of our multiply-translated Manchu recipe. Later posts in this series will take on other prepositional attitudes … Continue reading Translating Recipes 9: Recipes in Time and Space Part 3 – IF

The second part of a multi-part series exploring time and space in (Manchu) recipe literature and in translation has just been posted at The Recipes Project. You can find it here. This one focuses on drawing our attention to “with”-ness. Later posts in this series will take on other prepositional attitudes that situate bodies with respect to one another in time and space: on, in, toward, etc. The … Continue reading Translating Recipes 8: Recipes in Time and Space Part 2 – WITH

I have a new post on Manchu medical recipes up today at The Recipes Project! This is the first of a multi-part series exploring time and space in recipe literature and in translation. You can find it here. The entire Translating Recipes series (so far) is here. Continue reading Translating Recipes 7: Recipes in Time and Space Part 1

“Fluid Translation,” the newest installment in the Translating Recipes series at The Recipes Project, will be available today (for Pt. 1, here) and tomorrow (for Pt. 2). The posts work as a series of pairs, with the first offering offering an explanation and conceptual grounding of the translation experiment featured in the second: Translating Qing Recipes 1: Narrating Qing Bodies Translating Qing Recipes 2: A Drama of Butter and … Continue reading Translating Qing Recipes: Fluid Translation