Taste makers : seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America / Mayukh Sen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sen, Mayukh, author.

Contributor:

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women cooks--United States--Biography.

Women cooks.

Women immigrants--United States--Biography.

Women immigrants.

Chao, Buwei Yang, 1889-1981.

Chao, Buwei Yang.

Zelayeta, Elena.

Child, Julia.

Kamman, Madeleine.

Hazan, Marcella.

Sahni, Julie.

Batmanglij, Najmieh, 1947-.

Batmanglij, Najmieh.

Shirley, Norma.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

Summary:

"America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen-a queer, brown child of immigrants-reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what's on their plate-and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Mother Tongue / Chao Yang Buwei

You'd Never Give a Thought to Pity Her / Elena Zelayeta

INTERLUDE: JULIA CHILD, AMERICAN WOMAN

I Was a Good Fighter, Sister / Madeleine Kamman

As Words Come to a Child / Marcella Hazan

Her Own Quiet Rebellion / Julie Sahni

A Place for the Stateless / Najmieh Batmanglij

The Taste of Papaya / Norma Shirley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781324004516

1324004517

OCLC:

1233265881

Publisher Number:

99988936684