Through the kitchen window : women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking / edited by Arlene Voski Avakian.

Includes index.

Introduction, with letters from Ruth Hubbard -- My mother/her kitchen / Clare Coss -- Sand plum jelly / Karen Coody Cooper -- Rice culture / Julie Dash -- A beet recipe / Joan Ormondroyd -- Zarouhe's Easter gift / Arlene Voski Avakian -- Gravy / Sally Bellerose -- Song of my mother / Tahira Naqvi -- Vermont kitchen / Janet Dike Rood -- The sweet and vinegary taste / Cheryl Savageau -- "Family liked 1956" : my mother's recipes / Sharon L. Jansen -- Follow the food / Barbara Haber -- Grandmother's pickles : creating a space / Beheroze F. Shroff -- Mother I hardly knew you / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Hedge nutrition, hunger, and Irish identity / Marie Smyth -- "Laying on hands" through cooking : black women's majesty and mystery in their own kitchens / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- My grandmother's hands / E. Barrie Kavasch -- What's that smell in the kitchen? / Marge Piercy -- The cook, the maid, and the lady / Caroline Babayan -- What my tongue knows / Margaret Randall -- But really, there are no recipes ... / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Layers of pleasure : Capirotada / Pat Mora -- The parable of the lamb / Martha A. Ayres -- Fast, free delivery / Paula Martinac -- On becoming a Cuban Jewish cook : a memoir with recipes / Ester Rebeca Shapiro -- The staff of life / Margaret Randall -- Home cookin' / EL. Cortes -- Greene / Leah Ryan -- New directions / Maya Angelou -- Making do with food stamp dinners / Trudy Condio -- Thoughts for food / Caroline Urvater -- Boiled chicken feet and hundred-year-old eggs : poor Chinese feasting / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Convalescence / Leah Ryan -- Appetite lost, appetite found / Helen Barolini -- A kitchen of one's own / Doris Friedensohn -- Getting hungry / Leah Ryan -- The power of the pepper : from slave food to spirit food / Jennifer Ire -- Hunger / Jyl Lynn Felman -- Food and belonging : at "home" in "alien-kitchens" / Ketu H. Katrak -- A lesbian appetite / Dorothy Allison -- Kitchens / Aurora Levins Morales -- Sacred food / Anais Salibian -- Corn-grinding song / Wendy Rose.