My kitchen wars : a memoir
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My kitchen wars : a memoir
（At table series）（A bison book）
University of Nebraska Press, c2009
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : North Point Press, 1999
"First Nebraska paperback printing, 2009"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons-the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives-evoke a lifetime's need to make dinner, love, and war. By prying open the past with these implements, Betty Fussell gives voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped and yet simultaneously silenced by an era of domestic strife and global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam. My Kitchen Wars also is a love story, recounting Fussell's liberation from the tyrannical Puritanism of her family by a veteran of the "Good War," a young writer named Paul Fussell. But she soon finds herself captive again, constrained by the roles of faculty wife and mother. Still, she cannot stop hungering for both a life of the mind and carnal pleasures. Her inner war to unite body and mind brings down the marriage in a denouement as brutal as the whack of a cleaver. Yet Fussell, however bruised, emerges to cook another dinner and to tell her tale in this fierce and funny memoir. My Kitchen Wars was adapted into a one-woman play performed in Hollywood and New York.
Table of Contents
IntroductionAssault and Battery To Arms with Squeezer and SlicerAnnihilation by Pressure CookerBlitzed by Bottle Caps and ScrewsInvasion of the Waring BlendersAmbushed by Rack and TongHot GrillsAttack by Whisk and CuisinartTo Sea in a SieveCold CleaversBreaking and Entering with a Wooden Spoon
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