At Table: My Kitchen Wars : A Memoir (Paperback)

from kristenn

Smoothly-written memoir combining foodie history and feminist history. It was particularly interesting to get a different generational context than yet another Boomer. Fussell is from the generation before, more like the characters on Mad Men. It's a complete (and bizarre) coincidence that I read...

from whitreidtan

The kitchen is the heart of the home. It's the place where everyone ends up during a party. It's where the family gathers together. But the kitchen can be a battleground too, reflecting the state of the family. In Betty Fussell's memoir, My Kitchen Wars, the noted food writer and cookbook author ...

from Karen59

My Kitchen Wars is a dense, furious and absorbing read by food journalist Betty Fussell. Smart and talented, she lived in the shadow of a"great man" in academia during the 1950's. She went from a loveless childhood to a difficult marriage and using cooking metaphors (The Invasion of Warring Blend...