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Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote Book
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Book Description
Most of us think cookbooks are just collections of recipes to feed the body. Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and soul as well. In this innovative culinary and cultural history, she explores two centuries of cookbooks and the women who wrote them--from 18th century handwritten "receipt books" to bestsellers by Alice Waters and Lynn Rossetto Kasper. Here, a cookbook is a memoir, a diary, a record of life that not only reflects ideals of family and womanhood, but also gives voice to women to express and fulfill themselves.
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Product Description
In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Beginning with 18th century and moving up through the present day, Theophano captures the stories and voices of cookbook writers and the ways in which writing allowed them to assert their individuality and structure their lives at a time when women were second class citizens. The selection of books Janet Theophano looks at is delicious: 18th century English housekeeping books that educated women during their long hours in the kitchen; A Date with a Dish, the classic that commemorated the slave roots of southern African American cooking, a 1950s US Chinese cookbook, and the contemporary masterpieces of Lynne Rosetto Kaspar and Alice Waters.
- 0312233787
- 9780312233785
- Janet Theophano
- 28 June 2002
- Saint Martin's Press Inc.
- Hardcover (Book)
- 368
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