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...
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 cuis...