Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Celebrate Food and Cooking [Hardcover]

Arlene Voski Avakian (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1997

Recipes and essays by Maya Angelou, Paula Martinac, Marge Piercy, and others offer a look at food and cooking as expressions of women's hidden hungers, their connections to one another, their inventiveness, and their political resistance."

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Taking a feminist perspective on a subject encumbered by the ponderous weight of societal mores and cultural expectations, Avakian's collection illustrates how meal preparation remains a meaningful expression of emotional connections and a creative way to communicate. In stories, essays, and recipes, women reminisce about food to reveal a myriad of highly charged meanings. Personal reflections illustrate the metaphorical warmth a kitchen environment generates, strengthening familial ties. In other instances, the culinary mode is shown to be rejected, releasing precious energy for writing or other artistic outlets. Representing well-known as well as emerging writers, this wide-ranging collection delineates just how food sustains ties that bind and provides satisfying reminders of the choices women have today. Alice Joyce

Product Details

• Hardcover: 315 pages
• Publisher: Beacon Pr (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807065080
• ISBN-13: 978-0807065082
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,773,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An exciting and sober look into the lives of women who cook, February 21, 1999

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This review is from: Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Celebrate Food and Cooking (Hardcover)

It took 3 seconds to decide to buy this book. A book to savor, chapter by chapter, to carry along when you need to read for an hour or so somewhere in your travels, to have bedside, and a companion for afternoon cool-down time. At this skill leval, many fine recipes, revealing even more of the cooks character and desire to do well. Fills those little niches of lonliness most of us feel , brings us in close to the discussion around the table with other women.Treasured moments! There are profound intellectual meanings as well.Steven King might enjoy the poem by Marge Piercy, "What is that burning in the kitchen!"Very funny and sooty!