Season to taste : rewriting kitchen space in contemporary women's food memoirs / Caroline J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Caroline J., 1974- author.

Series:

Ingrid G. Houck series in Food and Foodways

Ingrid G. Houck series in food and foodways

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women food writers.

Food writing--Social aspects.

Food writing.

Food writing--Political aspects.

Cookbooks--Social aspects.

Cookbooks.

Cookbooks--Political aspects.

Kitchens--Social aspects.

Kitchens.

Kitchens--Design and construction.

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Physical Description:

x, 166 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]

Summary:

"Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs explores women's food memoirs with recipes in order to consider the ways in which these women are rewriting this kitchen space and renegotiating their relationships with food. Caroline J. Smith begins the book with a historical overview of how the space of the kitchen, and the expectations of women associated with it, have shifted considerably since the 1960s. Better Homes and Gardens, as well as the discourse of the second wave feminist movement, tended to depict the space as a place of imprisonment. The contemporary popular writers examined in Season to Taste, such as Ruth Reichl, Kim Sune̹e, Jocelyn Delk Adams, Julie Powell, and Molly Wizenberg, respond to this characterization by instead presenting the kitchen as a place of transformation. In their memoirs and recipes, these authors reinterpret their roles within the private sphere of the home as well as the public sphere of the world of publishing (whether print or digital publication). The authors examined here explode the divide of private/feminine and public/masculine in both content and form and complicate the genres of recipe writing, diary writing, and memoir. These women writers, through the act of preparing and consuming food, encourage readers to reconsider the changing gender politics of the kitchen"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: serve it forth

1. Design challenge: Better Homes and Gardens and the changing space of the US American kitchen

2. "A woman's most rewarding way of life": the feminist/housewife debate and contemporary women's response

3. Winking while we bake: recoding kitchen space in contemporary food writing 4. Giulia Melucci's "I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti" and Kim Kim Sunée's "Trail of crumbs"

5. The gender politics of meat: the foodie romance and Julie Powell's "Cleaving"

6. Blog her: transgressing narrative boundaries

Afterword: writer, eater, cook

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Caroline J. Season to taste

ISBN:

9781496845610

1496845617

9781496845627

1496845625

OCLC:

1355453224

Publisher Number:

99993918330