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A bite off Mama's plate : mothers' and daughters' connections through food / Miriam Meyers.
Van Pelt Library GT2853.U5 M48 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyers, Miriam, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food habits--United States--History.
- Food habits.
- Dinners and dining.
- History.
- United States.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Mothers and daughters--United States.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Cooking, American--History.
- Cooking, American.
- Dinners and dining--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
- Summary:
- A celebration of food and its role in fostering companionship, communication, learning, and inspiration between mothers and daughters.
- Contents:
- 1 "Thinking Back through Our Mothers": Introduction 1
- 2 "A Subject of the Greatest Importance": Food and the Family 9
- 3 "The Best Thing": Communication about and through Food 35
- 4 "Secrets of Life": Food-Related Learning 55
- 5 "As If Nutrition Were Enough": Food for the Circumstances of Life 81
- 6 "The Presence of Many Women": Food as a Way of Ensuring Continuity across Generations of Women 105
- 7 "What Life Requires": Messages about Life through Food 125
- 8 "Strength for the Journey": What We Take from Our Mothers 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0897897889
- OCLC:
- 45757832
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