Voices in the kitchen : views of food and the world from working-class Mexican and Mexican American women / Meredith E. Abarca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abarca, Meredith E., 1967-

Series:

Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 9.

Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Mexican.

Cooking, American.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through the ages and across cultures, cooking has allowed women to express themselves and create a world of shared meanings with one another. Through a series of charlas culinarias (culinary chats), the women interviewed in Voices in the Kitchen share their lives as they share their savory, symbolic, and theoretical meanings of food.

Contents:

Introduction : What's for Breakfast? Los chilaquiles de miam , of course!

A Place of Their Own: Appropriating the Kitchen Space

Sazon: The Flavors of Culinary Epistemology

El arte culinario casero (Homemade Culinary Art): Cooks-as-Artists

Kitchen Talk: Cooks-as-Writers

The Literary Kitchen: Writers-as-Cooks

Conclusion: Maybe Dessert First? Charlas Culinarias.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-13790-3

1-60344-563-3

OCLC:

715188430