Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote

First edition. Examines the personal and social aspects of creating cookbooks, including sections about Cookbooks as Communities, as Collective Memory and Identity, as Legacy, as Autobiography. Illustrated with manuscript documents, prints and portraits. Pictoral dust jacket printed in color. xviii, 362 pages. paper-covered boards, red lettering on spine, dust jacket. small 8vo..