Through the kitchen window : women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking / edited by Arlene Voski Avakian.

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With recipes from many, and contributions by Dorothy Allison, Maya Angelou, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Marge Piercy, among others, Through the Kitchen Window offers a fresh and delicious look at food and cooking as more than the makings of a meal. For the writers in this provocative collection, food...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Avakian, Arlene Voski
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [1997], ©1997.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Food.
Cooking.
Feminism.
Genre:
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xv, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction, with letters from Ruth Hubbard
  • Inheritance
  • My Mother/Her Kitchen: Chicken Jambalaya, Pecan Pralines / Clare Coss
  • Sand Plum Jelly / Karen Coody Cooper
  • Rice Culture: Aunt Gertie's Red Rice / Julie Dash
  • A Beet Recipe: Borscht / Joan Ormondroyd
  • Zarouhe's Easter Gift: Media, Enginar, Persian Pilaf / Arlene Voski Avakian
  • Gravy / Sally Bellerose
  • Song of My Mother / Tahira Naqvi
  • Vermont Kitchen: Sweet Pickles / Janet Dike Rood
  • The Sweet and Vinegary Taste / Cheryl Savageau
  • "Family Liked 1956": My Mother's Recipes: Ginger Crinkles / Sharon L. Jansen
  • Follow the Food: Soup of Soups / Barbara Haber
  • Grandmother's Pickles: Creating a Space: Kheema, Baingan Masala / Beheroze F. Shroff
  • Mother I Hardly Knew You: Potato Latkes, Matzoh Meal Latkes / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Hedge Nutrition, Hunger, and Irish Identity / Marie Smyth
  • "Laying on Hands" through Cooking: Black Women's Majesty and Mystery in Their Own Kitchens / Gloria Wade-Gayles
  • My Grandmother's Hands: Ma's Buttermilk Griddle Biscuits / E. Barrie Kavasch
  • Transformations
  • What's that smell in the kitchen? / Marge Piercy
  • The Cook, the Maid, and the Lady / Caroline Babayan
  • What My Tongue Knows: Black Beans, Lemon Garlic Shrimp, Spanish Paella, Buttermilk, Raisin Light Whole Wheat Bread / Margaret Randall
  • But Really, There Are No Recipes ... / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
  • Layers of Pleasure: Capirotada: Aunt Carmen's Capirotada / Pat Mora
  • The Parable of the Lamb: Shish Kebab / Martha A. Ayres.