{"product_id":"voices-in-the-kitchen-views-of-food-and-the-world-from-working-class-mexican-and-mexican-american-women-volume-9-paperback","title":"Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women Volume 9 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeredith E. Abarca\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Literally, \u003ci\u003echilaquiles\u003c\/i\u003e are a breakfast I grew up eating: fried corn tortillas with tomato-chile sauce. Symbolically, they are the culinary metaphor for how working-class women speak with the seasoning of their food.\"--from the Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In \u003ci\u003eVoices in the Kitchen, \u003c\/i\u003eMeredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the kitchen, Abarca demonstrates, women assert their own \u003ci\u003esazón\u003c\/i\u003e (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives. Through a series of oral histories, or \u003ci\u003echarlas culinarias\u003c\/i\u003e (culinary chats), the women interviewed address issues of space, sensual knowledge, artistic and narrative expression, and cultural and social change. From her mother's breakfast \u003ci\u003echilaquiles\u003c\/i\u003e to the most elaborate traditional dinner, these women share their lives as they share their savory, symbolic, and theoretical meanings of food. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \u003ci\u003echarlas culinarias\u003c\/i\u003e represent spoken personal narratives, testimonial autobiography, and a form of culinary memoir, one created by the cooks-as-writers who speak from their kitchen space. Abarca then looks at writers-as-cooks to add an additional dimension to the understanding of women's power to define themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eVoices in the Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e joins the extensive culinary research of the last decade in exploring the importance of the knowledge found in the practical, concrete, and temporal aspects of the ordinary practice of everyday cooking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Meredith E. Abarca moved with her family to the United States as a young child. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.02 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51800201134368,"sku":"9781585445318","price":35.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d351b3b8d6dbdf94de18cd3d42618e9d.webp?v=1780836034","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/voices-in-the-kitchen-views-of-food-and-the-world-from-working-class-mexican-and-mexican-american-women-volume-9-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}