Through the kitchen window [electronic resource] : women explore the intimate meanings of food and cooking / edited by Arlene Voski Avakian.

Introduction, with letters from Ruth Hubbard
Inheritance
My Mother/Her Kitchen: Chicken Jambalaya, Pecan Pralines / Clare Coss
Sand Plum Jelly / Karen Coody Cooper
Rice Culture: Aunt Gertie's Red Rice / Julie Dash
A Beet Recipe: Borscht / Joan Ormondroyd
Zarouhe's Easter Gift: Media, Enginar, Persian Pilaf / Arlene Voski Avakian
Gravy / Sally Bellerose
Song of My Mother / Tahira Naqvi
Vermont Kitchen: Sweet Pickles / Janet Dike Rood
The Sweet and Vinegary Taste / Cheryl Savageau
"Family Liked 1956": My Mother's Recipes: Ginger Crinkles / Sharon L. Jansen
Follow the Food: Soup of Soups / Barbara Haber
Grandmother's Pickles: Creating a Space: Kheema, Baingan Masala / Beheroze F. Shroff
Mother I Hardly Knew You: Potato Latkes, Matzoh Meal Latkes / Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Hedge Nutrition, Hunger, and Irish Identity / Marie Smyth
"Laying on Hands" through Cooking: Black Women's Majesty and Mystery in Their Own Kitchens / Gloria Wade-Gayles
My Grandmother's Hands: Ma's Buttermilk Griddle Biscuits / E. Barrie Kavasch
Transformations
What's that smell in the kitchen? / Marge Piercy
The Cook, the Maid, and the Lady / Caroline Babayan
What My Tongue Knows: Black Beans, Lemon Garlic Shrimp, Spanish Paella, Buttermilk, Raisin Light Whole Wheat Bread / Margaret Randall
But Really, There Are No Recipes ... / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
Layers of Pleasure: Capirotada: Aunt Carmen's Capirotada / Pat Mora
The Parable of the Lamb: Shish Kebab / Martha A. Ayres.