Keeping House
Subtitle: A Novel In Recipes (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)
Contributors: Susan Briziarelli (Translator)
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State University of N.Y. Press
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780791464793
Subjects: Literary; Fiction - General; Cookery, Italian; Women; Fiction; Regional & Ethnic - Italian; General
First sentence: I fill a frying pan halfway with the flours and let them brown on medium heat, stirring with a wooden spatula until they brown but don't burn.
Description: "Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to find self-definition and self-identity. Born into a prominent Jewish Italian family full of strong personalities and colorful figures, Clara narrates the humorous, dramatic, and often poignant events that inform her life. Intertwining recipes with her narrative, Clara uses food as markers for the cornerstones of her life, allowing her to discover and remember both public and private events - a Yom Kippur dinner, fascism and antifascism, the early years of the young Italian republic, the politics and culture of the Italian left, the openness of the 1960s and '70s, and the retreat into privacy of the 1980s."--Jacket.