Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Aug 2025 Open Access

Cookin’ Up a Multimodal Story: Community-Engaged Writing and a Cultural Rhetorics Cookbook

Clara Lechowski ; Alexander Slotkin

Abstract

This article introduces and explores a cultural rhetorics project created by Clara Lechowski, a then-senior English Education major, with guidance from Alexander Slotkin, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition. Clara’s honors project—a zine-style cookbook—blends storytelling, family history, and culinary tradition, code-meshing Polish and English to reflect the author’s Polish American identity. We situate Clara’s work within the pedagogical framework of the course in which it originated and present her zine as a model for culturally responsive writing practices. Her zine not only showcases recipes from her community but also serves as a rhetorical space where cultural identity, memory, and writing intersect. By sharing this work, we invite educators and students to see writing as a means of honoring and engaging with their own home communities.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2025-08-19
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10.59236/rjv24i2pp275-287
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rhetorical criticism cultural rhetorics writing pedagogy multimodality translingualism
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