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During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history.Louise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs "Vertigo," "Breathless," and "Adultery"; the acclaimed biography "Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work"; and "Writing as a Way of Healing." Recently, she edited Woolf's early novel "Melymbrosia" and coedited "The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture." A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover "Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her

Author

DeSalvo, Louise

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596917668

Subjects

Memoir, Cooking, Biography

Rating

3.61 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14