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Displeasures of the table : memoir as caricature / Martha Ronk.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O574 D57 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ronk, Martha Clare.
- Series:
- Green Integer (Series) ; 23.
- Green Integer ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food.
- Physical Description:
- 132 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; St. Paul, Minn. : distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2001.
- Summary:
- Poet Martha Ronk notes that it is not so much that she finds food displeasurable, but that she finds the sitting at the table unpleasant. Moreover, food, for any woman, is associated with roles in the society that Ronk questions. Accordingly, the very process of writing about it becomes a sort of dialogue between society and between eating and reading, "a wrestling with dough or syntax, being at the table or under it". Ronk's startlingly fresh and often comic wrestling with food is a remarkable tour de force as she takes the reader through lemons, frozen hotdogs, oranges, raw eggs, artichokes, basil, red pepper strips, snails, rice, tortillas, eggs, cottage cheese, brandy, and many other products of the kitchen.
- Contents:
- Peas 15
- A hard roll 17
- Goose liver pate 19
- Peanutbutter sandwiches 20
- Lake Erie perch 22
- Bread for dessert 24
- Corn 26
- Brussels sprouts 28
- Cherries 30
- Beautiful soup 32
- Chocolate turtles 34
- Raisins 36
- A Dagwood sandwich 37
- Milk 39
- Milktoast 41
- Balsamic vinegar 43
- Hash 45
- Lima beans 46
- Christmas cookies 48
- Green beans 50
- Lemons 1 52
- Lemons 2 54
- Spinach and self-reliance 56
- Mashed potato patties 58
- Grapes 60
- Yoghurt 61
- Cereal 62
- Boiling water 64
- Frozen hotdogs 65
- Creamed tunafish on toast 68
- Pasta 70
- Lobster 72
- Peanuts 74
- Oranges 76
- Grains 77
- Raw eggs 78
- Trout 79
- Artichokes 81
- Oatmeal 83
- Cauliflower 85
- Basil 87
- Steak 88
- Coca Cola 90
- Red pepper strips 92
- Rice 93
- Snails 94
- Tortillas 96
- Chocolate 98
- Baked potato 99
- Piecrust 101
- Cheese and crackers 102
- Rappini 104
- Coffee 106
- Sunflower seeds 107
- Diet shakes 109
- Horseradish 110
- Bananas 111
- Eggs 113
- Toast and ghosts 115
- Pizza and ghosts 117
- Plum sauce 118
- Zucchini and mint 120
- Cottage cheese and brandy 122
- Plums 124
- Mushrooms 126
- Summer squash 128
- Champagne risotto 130
- Parsley 131.
- ISBN:
- 189229544X
- OCLC:
- 47829307
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