Loaves & Wishes : Writers writing on food / edited by Antonia Till.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Till, Antonia, editor.

Oxfam.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gastronomy--Literary collections.

Gastronomy.

Dinners and dining--Literary collections.

Dinners and dining.

Food habits--Literary collections.

Food habits.

Food in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 152, [4] pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Loaves and Wishes

Place of Publication:

London : Virago Press, [1992]

Contents:

Introduction / Antonia Til

Listen to Mother ... / Maeve Binchy

Famine / Germaine Greer

Of Kitchens and Goddesses / Shashi Deshpande

Dishwashing / Maxine Hong Kingston

From: To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf

Noodle Sounds / Chinatsu Nakayama, translated by Elizabeth Wood

Protection You Can Trust / Sohaila Abdulali

Buns are the Lowest Form of Wheat / Kathy Lette

Diminishing Plenty / Margaret Drabble

'Bread' From Murder in the Dark / Margaret Atwood

Dada Fatima's Kitchen / Rana Kabbani

La Mer à la Cuisine / Benoîte Groult, translated by Antonia Till

From Nursery Food / Molly Keane

'A Language all of its Own' / Susie Orbach

The Bigger eat the Smaller / Robyn Archer

From The Golden Notebook / Doris Lessing

Of National Dishes: Curried Goat or Curried Sheep? / Elean Thomas

Mother Love / Sara Maitland

The First Time / Marina Warner

Of Memories and Meals / Attia Hosain

Afterword: About Oxfam / Robert Cornford.

Notes:

Logo on title page: Fifty Years. Oxfam working for a fairer world.

Published in conjunction with Oxfam in celebration of Oxfam's fiftieth anniversary

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

1853815187

OCLC:

30437659