The Recipes Project is looking for guest editors and contributors! Guest Editors are encouraged to propose thematic issues on any topic  related to recipe studies. Following consultation with the editorial team, the Guest Editor would lead the work of soliciting posts around that theme. Prospective editors should send along a 250-word pitch explaining the issue’s theme, along with a list of potential contributors or post ideas to to recipesproject@brocku.ca. An editor will promptly get back to you about your proposal. Guest Editors will work with one current member of the editorial team to produce their issue.

We also welcome proposals for single posts. Prospective authors should send a 2 or 3-sentence pitch to recipesproject@brocku.ca. An editor will promptly get back to you about your proposed submission. Contributors will then be invited to submit posts of around 500-850 words, preferably illustrated with one or two copyright-cleared images. 

We especially aim to build on existing strengths in areas like early modern Europe to reflect exciting international scholarship in the history of science, food, medicine, knowledge, folklore, technologies, magic, beauty, and beyond. This includes work on recipes and recipe-adjacent topics in the Indian Ocean World; African contexts and in the African Diaspora; Latin America; the Middle East; and among global Indigenous communities. We invite proposals from early career researchers and PhD candidates; those in public history, museum, and outreach work; teachers and educators; community leaders and elders; and scholars working either within or beyond traditional academic settings.

We are a grassroots and entirely volunteer-staffed organization, so unfortunately we cannot pay authors for their contributions. However, we can provide a publicity boost to early career researchers and writers. Our mission is to amplify and champion.