{"product_id":"my-kitchen-wars-a-memoir-paperback","title":"My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBetty Fussell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaura Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough \u003cem\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/em\u003e is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons--the \u003cem\u003ebatterie de cuisine\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/em\u003e was adapted into a one-woman play performed in Hollywood and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty Fussell has lectured widely on food and food history and won the 2008 James Beard Award for \"Magazine Feature Writing with Recipes.\" She is the author of eleven books, including \u003cem\u003eMasters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child\u003c\/em\u003e (available in a Bison Books edition), \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Corn\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRaising Steaks\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Shapiro is the author of \u003cem\u003eJulia Child\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Literary Book Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals) and several other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty Fussell has lectured widely on food and food history and won the 2008 James Beard Award for \"Magazine Feature Writing with Recipes.\" She is the author of eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eMasters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child\u003c\/i\u003e (available in a Bison Books edition), \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Corn\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRaising Steaks\u003c\/i\u003e. Laura Shapiro is the author of \u003ci\u003eJulia Child\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Literary Book Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals) and several other books.\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 0.53 x 8.06 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987478905133,"sku":"9780803220973","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/eFVJbzdIUXEyckRkeDVIRFozZkxhZz09.webp?v=1776178951","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/my-kitchen-wars-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}