ISBN: 9781596917668

Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family During Louise DeSalvo&apos s childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise&… More...

Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family During Louise DeSalvo&apos s childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise&apos s step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise&apos s convenience-food-loving mother Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history. Louise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, and Adultery the acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work and Writing as a Way of Healing. Recently, she edited Woolf&apos s early novel Melymbrosia and coedited The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover " Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her slim memoir...[A] tough, courageous story, one of hard-won wisdom and memory." -San Francisco Chronicle " Illuminate[s] the difficulties of reconciling past and present...DeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history." -New York Times Book Review Crazy In The Kitchen: During Louise DeSalvo&apos s childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise&apos s step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise&apos s convenience-food-loving mother Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history. Louise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, and Adultery the acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work and Writing as a Way of Healing. Recently, she edited Woolf&apos s early novel Melymbrosia and coedited The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover " Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her slim memoir...[A] tough, courageous story, one of hard-won wisdom and memory." -San Francisco Chronicle " Illuminate[s] the difficulties of reconciling past and present...DeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history." -New York Times Book Review Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung Erinnerung / Journalistik, Medien Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / Italian, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc<

1950, ISBN: 9781596917668

During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of … More...

During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history. Louise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, and Adultery; the acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work; and Writing as a Way of Healing. Recently, she edited Woolf's early novel Melymbrosia and coedited The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover "Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her slim memoir[A] tough, courageous story, one of hard-won wisdom and memory."-San Francisco Chronicle "Illuminate[s] the difficulties of reconciling past and presentDeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history."-New York Times Book Review eBook<

ISBN: 9781596917668

Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family Crazy-in-the-Kitchen~~Louise-DeSalvo Cookbooks - Regional & World>Italian>Italian NOOK Book (eBook), Bloom… More...

Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family Crazy-in-the-Kitchen~~Louise-DeSalvo Cookbooks - Regional & World>Italian>Italian NOOK Book (eBook), Bloomsbury USA<

2008, ISBN: 9781596917668

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