Through the kitchen window : women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking /
edited by Arlene Voski Avakian.
- xv, 315 p. : 22 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction, with letters from Ruth Hubbard -- My mother/her kitchen / Sand plum jelly / Rice culture / A beet recipe / Zarouhe's Easter gift / Gravy / Song of my mother / Vermont kitchen / The sweet and vinegary taste / "Family liked 1956" : my mother's recipes / Follow the food / Grandmother's pickles : creating a space / Mother I hardly knew you / Hedge nutrition, hunger, and Irish identity / "Laying on hands" through cooking : black women's majesty and mystery in their own kitchens / My grandmother's hands / What's that smell in the kitchen? / The cook, the maid, and the lady / What my tongue knows / But really, there are no recipes ... / Layers of pleasure : Capirotada / The parable of the lamb / Fast, free delivery / On becoming a Cuban Jewish cook : a memoir with recipes / The staff of life / Home cookin' / Greene / New directions / Making do with food stamp dinners / Thoughts for food / Boiled chicken feet and hundred-year-old eggs : poor Chinese feasting / Convalescence / Appetite lost, appetite found / A kitchen of one's own / Getting hungry / The power of the pepper : from slave food to spirit food / Hunger / Food and belonging : at "home" in "alien-kitchens" / A lesbian appetite / Kitchens / Sacred food / Corn-grinding song / Clare Coss -- Karen Coody Cooper -- Julie Dash -- Joan Ormondroyd -- Arlene Voski Avakian -- Sally Bellerose -- Tahira Naqvi -- Janet Dike Rood -- Cheryl Savageau -- Sharon L. Jansen -- Barbara Haber -- Beheroze F. Shroff -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Marie Smyth -- Gloria Wade-Gayles -- E. Barrie Kavasch -- Marge Piercy -- Caroline Babayan -- Margaret Randall -- Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Pat Mora -- Martha A. Ayres -- Paula Martinac -- Ester Rebeca Shapiro -- Margaret Randall -- EL. Cortes -- Leah Ryan -- Maya Angelou -- Trudy Condio -- Caroline Urvater -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Leah Ryan -- Helen Barolini -- Doris Friedensohn -- Leah Ryan -- Jennifer Ire -- Jyl Lynn Felman -- Ketu H. Katrak -- Dorothy Allison -- Aurora Levins Morales -- Anais Salibian -- Wendy Rose.