Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love . . . and the Mothers Who Dished It Upfor Them
This unique tribute to women, food, and family is brimming with top-notch food writing and delicious recipes. In this mouthwatering celebration of the role cooking plays in our lives today, women describe the foods their mothers and grandmothers made for them and how they carry on the tradition of lovingly preparing for their own families "mother's very finest." Lela Nargi gathers around the table a wide array of women-from biologists and book editors to mathematicians and marketers-to discover why they feel that everything important in life-creativity, patience, time alone, time with others, nourishment mboth physical and spiritual-lies in the simple act of cooking a meal. Featuring a baker's dozen women and their favorite home-cooked recipes-including the Thinking Person's Cheesecake and Day-After Thanksgiving Gumbo-Around the Tablewill delight any woman who relishes the act of putting food on the table for the people she loves.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1585424110
ISBN13:9781585424115
Release Date:June 2005
Publisher:Tarcher
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:9.1" x 0.6" x 7.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 12 and higher
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Interesting insight to women and food
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book offers a personal glimpse into women's lives and their life with food and other women. With a personal touch, Lela Nargi's writing puts the reader into the subject's lives and gives a tantilizing view of who cooks, why they cook, and why they cook WHAT they cook. The recipes are an added bonus, giving the reader another way to relate to the women they have just read about, and making the experience more fulfilling than just a book about women and food. The stories are delightfully varied in terms of culture, tone and food, and give some new ideas on celebrating with food. I myself want to have a "perfect meal" party, and can only hope that it's as good as the one in "Around the Table". An excellent, quick read, and a great book to add to your collection, if you enjoy food and reading about foodies.
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