Aging and Illness
Aunts
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Ethnicity
Family
Friends
Grandmothers
Hard Times
Holidays
Hurricane Katrina
Identity
Lovers
Mothers
Recipes
Rites of Passage
Secrets
War
Product details
- ISBN 9780313381676
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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We are what we eat—not just physiologically, but culturally. This collection of cross-cultural, generational essays, and accompanying recipes shows the profound importance of food dishes within American women's lives.
For people of every ethnicity, food provides much more than mere fuel for the body—it contains an invisible component that ties families and generations together with the continuity of shared experience. And for the women who are entrusted with the responsibility of keeping that priceless cultural thread intact, family recipes embody tradition, bridge generation gaps, and erase age differences.
This book is organized around 50 short essays and recipes presented by women from multicultural backgrounds and dissimilar walks of life. The chapters depict the paths of these individuals in their lives and the details of how they acquired their precious family recipes. The stories document how women universally use inherited family recipes to remember and memorialize key women in their lives and to aid and measure their own growth and development. Included are reminiscences of an Egyptian aunt, a poor mother from Australia, a Katrina-flooded New Orleans family, Turkish relations, Chinese mothers, and Indian grandmothers.
Linda Murray Berzok is a widely published food writer and historian who holds a master's degree in food studies. Her published works include Greenwood's American Indian Food.
