Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking
'A fascinating anthology of ground-roots cuisine from unknown kitchen heroines!'John Whiting, News Editor of Fine Food Digest 2005'Through the Kitchen Window is a pathbreaking book. What Avakian's collection does so well is to integrate many kinds of experiences and social locations - class, race, immigration, nationalism, age, sexuality - in a variety of formats.'Alice Julier, Professor of Sociology, Smith College, USA; President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society'Such a re-visioning of domestic labour is most useful to feminine readers in the complexity of its nostalgia'. The Women's Review of Books, October 1997'A yummy anthology of female culinary writing, which has the good taste to order up a whole range of experiences.' Entertainment Weekly, May 1997.'Avakian lays out a feast of musings.' The Orlando Sentinel, May 1997. 'The personal essays are especially compelling. The collection as a whole provides both an engrossing read and a we