The milk of almonds
Subtitle: Italian American women writers on food and culture
By: edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta.
Contributors: DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-; Giunta, Edvige.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: American literature -- Italian American authors.; Italian American women -- Literary collections.; Italian Americans -- Literary collections.; American literature -- Women authors.; Gastronomy -- Literary collections.; Italian Americans -- Civilization.; Food -- Literary collections.; Gastronomy.; Food.
Genres: Literary collections.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments, xi; title: Editors' Note, xii; title: LOUISE DESALVO AND EDVIGE GIUNTA Introduction, 1; title: Part One: BEGINNINGS; title: CAROLE MASO Rose and Pink and Round, 17; title: MARY BUCCI BUSH Aperitivo, 22; title: DOROTHY BARRESI Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt, 24; title: KIM ADDONIZIO Beer. Milk. The Dog. My Old Man. 27; title: CRIS MAZZA Our Father, 28; title: RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Italian Grocer, 37; title: MARY SARACINO Smoke and Fire, 38; title: KIM ADDONIZIO Outside, 44; title: DONNA MASINI Sacred Hearts and Tar, 45; title: Part Two: CEREMONIES; title: CAMILLA TRINCHIERI Kitchen Coanmunion, 49; title: DOROTHY BRYANT Dizzy Spells, 56; title: JANET ZANDY My Children's Names, 64; title: MARY RUsso DEMETRICK Jazzman, 65; title: KIM ADDONIZIO Bedtime Story, 65; title: MARY BETH CASCHETTA The Seven Sacraments, 67; title: SANDRA M. GILBERT Kissing the Bread, 76; title: LUCIA PERILLO Pomegranate, 78; title: MARY ANN MANNINO The Anthology Poems, 81; title: DOROTHY BARRESI The Prodigal Daughter, 82; title: EDVIGE GIUNTA The Giara off Memory, 84; title: Part Three: AWAKENINGS; title: NANCY CARONIA Go to Hell, 95; title: MARY Jo BONA Motherlove, 101; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO We Begin with Food, 102; title: Breakfast in My Seventeenth Year, 104; title: CHERYL BURKE Bone, Veins, and Fat, 105; title: RITA CIRESI Big Heart, 112; title: DANIELA GIOSEFFI The Origins of Milk, 121; title: LORYN LIPARI Cracked, 123; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO Broke, 130; title: Part Four: ENCOUNTERS; title: PAMELA E. BARNETT Other People's Food, 135; title: DIANE DI PRIMA What I Ate Where, 143; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO The Stereotype, 148; title: REGINA BARRECA My Grandmother, a Chicken, and; title: Death, 148; title: SANDRA M. GILBERT "No Thank You, I Don't Care for; title: Artichokes," 150; title: RINA FERRARELLI Hot Peppers, 152; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO If You Were a Boy, 152; title: GIOIA TIMPANELLI Tridicinu and 'Mmaculata, 153; title: VITTORIA REPETTO she's doing the dishes, 158; title: pasta poem. 159; title: AGNES Rossi Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, 160; title: Part Five: TRANSFORIMATIONS; title: ANNE MARIE MACARI I Can Be Bread, 167; title: SANDRA M. GILBERT Finocchio, 168; title: ADELE REGINA LA BARRE Pomodori, 170; title: VrrroRIA REPETTO lovers and other dead animals, 175; title: LUCIA PERILLO Tripe, 175; title: ANNE CALCAGNO Let Them Eat Cake, 176; title: ANNE MARIE MACARI Parable, 182; title: SUSANNE ANTONETTA Rosette, 182; title: SANDRA M. GILBERT Basil, 189; title: FLAVA ALAYA Love Lettuce, 190; title: ANNE MARIE MACARI The Room, 198; title: DONNA MASINI Hunger, 200; title: Part Six: COM1MUNITIES; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO Dealing with Broccoli Rabe, 205; title: ADRIA BERNARDI Sunday, 205; title: ROSETTE CAPOTORTO The Oven, 214; title: NANCY SAVOCA Ravioli, Artichokes, and Figs, 216; title: MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Seventeenth Street: Paterson,; title: New Jersey, 222; title: Passing It On, 222; title: You Were Always Escaping, 223; title: DOROTHY BARRESI Poem, 225; title: JOANNA CLAPPS HERMAN Coffee an, 227; title: PHYLLIS CAPELLO Jeanie, 235; title: Working Men, 236; title: DONNA MASINI Moving In and Moving Up, 237; title: MARY CAPPELLO Fatso, 239; title: Part Seven: PASSINGS; title: SUSANNE ANTONETTA The Lives of the Saints, 249; title: DORIAN CIRRONE After We Bury Her, 252; title: MARIA MAZZIOTT GILLAN Ma, Who Told Me You Forgot; title: How to Cry, 252; title: SUZANNE BRANCIFORTE The Day Anna Stopped Making; title: A-Beetz, 254; title: JANET ZANDY My Mother's Career at Skip's; title: Luncheonette, 258; title: Secret Gardens, 259; title: ALANE SALIERNO MASON The Exegesis of Eating, 261; title: DOROTHY BARRESI The Vinegarroon, 269; title: ANNIE LANZILLOTTO Triple Bypass, 273; title: JENNIFER LAGIER Last Supper, 274; title: DORIAN CIRRONE New Year's Eve, 275; title: KYM RAGUSA Baked Ziti, 276; title: Part Eight LEGACIES; title: MARIA TERRONE What They'll Say in a Thousand; title: Years, 285; title: DENISE CALVETTI MICHAELS Polenta, 295; title: LUCIA PERILLO Lament in Good Weather, 299; title: SANDRA M. GILBERT Mafioso, 299; title: MARIA FAMA Picking Apricots with Zia Antonia, 300; title: ROSANNA COLASURDO Mortadella, 301; title: MARY ANN MANNINO Keep the Wheat and Let the; title: Chaff Lie, 308; title: LUCIA PERILLO The Northside at Seven, 310; title: MARIA LAURINO Words, 312; title: RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES How to Sing to a Dago, 320; title: DOROTHY BARRESI The Post-Rapture Diner, 321; title: LOUISE DESALVO Cutting the Bread, 322.