{"product_id":"eat-my-words-reading-womens-lives-through-the-cookbooks-they-wrote-janet-theophano","title":"Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote (Janet Theophano)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well as the body. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeginning in the seventeenth century and moving up through the present day, Theophano reads between the lines of recipes to capture the stories and voices of these remarkable women, looking at a diverse array of cookbooks. Theophano begins with seventeenth-century English estate housekeeping books that served as both cookbooks and reading primers so that women could educate themselves during long hours in the kitchen. She looks at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Date with a Dish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e a classic African American cookbook that reveals the roots of many traditional American dishes, and she brings to life a 1950s cookbook written specifically for Americans by a Chinese émigré and transcribed into English by her daughter. Finally, Theophano looks at the contemporary cookbooks of Lynne Rosetto Kaspar, Madeleine Kamman, and Alice Waters to illustrate the sophistication and political activism present in modern cookbook writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanet Theophano harvests the rich history of cookbook writing to show how much more can be learned from a recipe than how to make a casserole, roast a chicken, or bake a cake. We discover that women's writings about food reveal--and revel in--the details of their lives, families, and the cultures they help to shape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47389862953218,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/81No8nAwhdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1771716010","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/eat-my-words-reading-womens-lives-through-the-cookbooks-they-wrote-janet-theophano","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}