My Kitchen Wars (Thorndike Press Large Print Senior Lifestyles Series) - Hardcover

Fussell, Betty Harper

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9780786226979: My Kitchen Wars (Thorndike Press Large Print Senior Lifestyles Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786226978 ISBN 13: 9780786226979

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2000

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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.

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"This is a wonderful, humorous book."-Alice Waters, founder and co-owner of Chez Panisse

"The author (and chef) knows how to get the most from her ingredients, and she uses not only irony but also self-deprecating humor and poignant understatement with delicate precision."-Booklist

"This work features dark humor and stunning gastronomic descriptions that will speak to Fussell's contemporaries and astonish younger generations fighting different battles today."-Library Journal

"[Fussell marks the passage of time through foods eaten, tastes disc--Susan Bolotin "New York Times Book Review "

"Fussell serves up the story of her life with the same cutting wit and pungent detail that distinguish her cookbooks."--;/DIV>--Wendy Smith "Elle "

[Fussell] marks the passage of time through foods eaten, tastes discovered, pots and pans employed and then ladles on salacious detail as the gravy. This is juicy stuff. New York Times Book Review--Susan Bolotin "New York Times Book Review ""

"[Fussell] marks the passage of time through foods eaten, tastes discovered, pots and pans employed--and then ladles on salacious detail as the gravy. This is juicy stuff."--New York Times Book Review--Susan Bolotin "New York Times Book Review "

"Fussell has led a fascinating life during interesting times, and tells her story with a down-to-earth realness and inhibition that keeps you engrossed from decade to decade. . . . There is no question who has come out on top in this war."--Carolyn W. Fanelli, PopMatters.com--Carolyn W. Fanelli"PopMatters.com" (04/15/2009)

Review:

“This work features dark humor and stunning gastronomic descriptions that will speak to Fussell’s contemporaries and astonish younger generations fighting different battles today.”―Library Journal (Library Journal)

“The author (and chef) knows how to get the most from her ingredients, and she uses not only irony but also self-deprecating humor and poignant understatement with delicate precision.”―Booklist (Booklist)

"Fussell serves up the story of her life with the same cutting wit and pungent detail that distinguish her cookbooks."--Elle (Wendy Smith Elle)

“[Fussell] marks the passage of time through foods eaten, tastes discovered, pots and pans employed―and then ladles on salacious detail as the gravy. This is juicy stuff.”―New York Times Book Review (Susan Bolotin New York Times Book Review)

"Fussell has led a fascinating life during interesting times, and tells her story with a down-to-earth realness and inhibition that keeps you engrossed from decade to decade. . . . There is no question who has come out on top in this war."―Carolyn W. Fanelli, PopMatters.com (Carolyn W. Fanelli PopMatters.com)

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