In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and LifeFood can embody our personal histories as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourselves about the kitchen, and how do we first come to it? How do the cookbooks we read shape us? Can cooking be a tool for connection in the kitchen and outside of it? In these thirteen original essays, writers consider the subjects of cooking and eating and how they shape our lives, and the possibilities and limitations the kitchen poses.

strangeness and estrangement

We don't passively take in the world around us

ultimately

exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises

Arendt believes that “Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

Mukhopadhyay traces the origins of these myths

" who advises us here to 'every day do something that won't compute

” adrift in the suburban Midwest of the 1970s

trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than 300 years

raised by a ‘fallen woman’

and many beautiful women all float through these affecting brief tales dreamed by a mind too fertile ever to rest

He ends up becoming Ho’s special political agent