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Season to taste : rewriting kitchen space in contemporary women's food memoirs / Caroline J. Smith.

"Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Wome...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Smith, Caroline J., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Series:Ingrid G. Houck series in Food and Foodways.
Subjects:
Women food writers.
Food writing > Social aspects.
Food writing > Political aspects.
Cookbooks > Social aspects.
Cookbooks > Political aspects.
Kitchens > Social aspects.
Kitchens > Design and construction.
Food > Social aspects.
Food > Social aspects
Kitchens > Design and construction
Kitchens > Social aspects
Women food writers
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: serve it forth
  • 1. Design challenge: Better Homes and Gardens and the changing space of the US American kitchen
  • 2. "A woman's most rewarding way of life": the feminist/housewife debate and contemporary women's response
  • 3. Winking while we bake: recoding kitchen space in contemporary food writing 4. Giulia Melucci's "I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti" and Kim Kim Sunée's "Trail of crumbs"
  • 5. The gender politics of meat: the foodie romance and Julie Powell's "Cleaving"
  • 6. Blog her: transgressing narrative boundaries
  • Afterword: writer, eater, cook
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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