false 6481707 1 <DIV><DIV>Although <I>My Kitchen Wars</I> is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons—the <I>batterie de cuisine</I> of grills and squeezers and knives—evoke a lifetime’s need to make dinner, love, and war. By prying open the past with these implements, Betty Fussell gives voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped and yet simultaneously silenced by an era of domestic strife and global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam.<DIV> <DIV><I>My Kitchen Wars</I> also is a love story, recounting Fussell’s liberation from the tyrannical Puritanism of her family by a veteran of the “Good War,” a young writer named Paul Fussell. But she soon finds herself captive again, constrained by the roles of faculty wife and mother. Still, she cannot stop hungering for both a life of the mind and carnal pleasures. Her inner war to unite body and mind brings down the marriage in a denouement as brutal as the whack of a cleaver. Yet Fussell, however bruised, emerges to cook another dinner and to tell her tale in this fierce and funny memoir. <I>My Kitchen Wars</I> was adapted into a one-woman play performed in Hollywood and New York.</DIV> 6672967 1 3 2009 My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir (At Table) total:1|2:1| 1 2 3 1 2 0 false true Wed May 20 14:23:43 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:34:20 -0700 2009
As a person who loves food and memoirs, I thought this book was great. My beef (ha) with it is the way it dealt with homosexuality. A woman and her husband spend the duration of their 30-year marriage engaging in heteronormative adultery that both are aware of and seemin...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 23:23:13 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 23:23:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 12:55:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 12:55:34 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6481707