Sheds light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. This collection of essays investigates the connections between food studies and women's studies.

After traveling across the U.S. interviewing scores of relatives, two sisters share a collection of recipes for favorite family dishes, herbal concoctions, and natural beauty aids

She also tells us how poundcake got her a marriage proposal (she didn’t accept) and how she perfected omelettes in Paris, enchiladas in New Mexico, biscuits in Mississippi, and feijoida in Brazil. “When I cook, I never measure or weigh ...

. . While it contains recipes from France, the Mediterranean, and the Levant, the book is really a collection of Mrs. David’s memories of those places.” —The Dabbler

This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures.

This collection of entertaining anecdotes includes the abuses of the potato and how it can be dignified, social status relative to one's appreciation of vegetables, and the growth of the art of eating in ancient Greece and Rome.

This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

This social history tells the story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes.

A stimulating collection of essays in which leading theorists of regionalism join with talented younger scholars in remapping the field.

Course by course, Margaret Visser examines an ordinary meal—corn, salt, butter, chicken, rice, lettuce, olive oil, lemon juice and ice cream—to show the unexpected history, mythology and taboos behind what we eat.