Pilaf, pozole, and pad thai : American women and ethnic food edited by Sherrie A. Inness

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inness, Sherrie A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic food industry--United States.

Ethnic food industry.

Women--United States--Social life and customs.

Women.

Food habits--United States.

Food habits.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 234 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2001.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Reflections on family, food, and ethnicity. Mac and gravy / Paul Christensen ; Humble pie / Cathie English ; Dalia Carmel: a menu of food memories / Leanne Trapedo Sims ; Writing and cooking, cooking and writing / Lynn Z. Bloom ; My mother's recipes: the diary of a Swedish American daughter and mother / Linda Murray Berzok ; The triumph of Fassoulia, or Aunt Elizabeth and the beans / Arlene Voski Avakian

Pt. 2. Changing relations to ethnic food. Los chilaquiles de mi 'ama: the language of everyday cooking / Meredith E. Abarca ; "In the kitchen family bread is always rising!": women's culture and the gringa imagination / Doris Friedensohn ; Let's cook Thai: recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke ; Gendered feasts: a feminist reflects on dining in New Orleans / Heather Schell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

1558492860 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1558492852 (library Cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

45122287