Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781582344706
ISBN-10: 1582344701
Addition ISBN: 1596917660, 9781596917668
Author(s): Louise DeSalvo, Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, Copyright: 2008
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 present…DeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history.”-New York Times Book Review