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The milk of almonds, Italian American women writers on food and culture, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta

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The milk of almonds, Italian American women writers on food and culture, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta

Language

eng

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local government publication

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The milk of almonds

Oclc number

49566291

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edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta

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Italian American women writers on food and culture

Summary

In this sumptuous feast of poetry, stories, and memoir, more than fifty Italian American women writers offer loving celebrations and piercing critiques of every facet of Italian American culture. Familiar stock images of the nurturant grandmother lovingly stirring the sauce and the domineering mother wielding wooden spoon and garlic press give way to fresh renderings of the authentic experiences of Italian American women in all their fascinating diversity. Food serves as a bridge to ethnic heritage -- to earlier generations, the old country, the immigrant experience, and the deprivation and solidarity of the working class. It also becomes a medium for revealing the painful legacies of prejudice and family violence and for exploring how women's unsatisfied hungers can be subverted into appetites for sex or drugs. Food also provides a means for reclaiming the joy of cooking and reinventing old rituals to suit new realities. These are the voices of Italian American women at the beginning of theTwenty-first century, refusing to be overlooked, silenced, or stereotyped. Theirs is a literature that is multifaceted and nourishing, while challenging all received notions of what it means to be an Italian American. Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Rose and pink and round / Carole Maso -- Aperitivo / Mary Bucci Bush -- Mother Hunger and her seatbelt / Dorothy Barresi -- Beer. Milk. The dog. My old man / Kim Addonizio -- Our father / Cris Mazza -- Italian grocer / Rachel Guido deVries -- Smoke and fire / Mary Saracino -- Outside / Kim Addonizio -- Sacred hearts and tar / Donna Masini -- Kitchen communion / Camilla Trinchieri -- Dizzy spells / Dorothy Bryant -- My children's names / Janet Zandy -- Jazzman / Mary Russo Demetrick -- Bedtime story / Kim Addonizio -- The seven sacraments / Mary Beth Caschetta -- Kissing the bread / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Pomegranate / Lucia Perillo -- The anthology poems / Mary Ann Mannino -- The prodigal daughter / Dorothy Barresi -- The giara of memory / Edvige Giunta -- Go to Hell / Nancy Caronia -- Motherlove / Mary Jo Bona -- We begin with food / Rosette Capotorto -- Breakfast in my seventeenth year / Rosette Capotorto -- Bone, veins, and fat / Cheryl Burke -- Big heart / Rita Ciresi -- The origins of milk / Daniela Gioseffi -- Cracked / Loryn Lipari -- Broke / Rosette Capotorto -- Other people's food / Pamela E. Barnett -- What I ate where / Diane di Prima -- The stereotype / Rosette Capotorto -- My grandmother, a chicken, and death / Regina Barreca -- "No thank you, I don't care for artichokes" / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Hot peppers / Rina Ferrarelli -- If you were a boy / Rosette Capotorto -- Tridicinu and 'mmaculata -- she's doing the dishes / Vittoria Repetto -- pasta poem / Vittoria Repetto -- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner / Agnes Rossi -- I can be bread / Anne Marie Macari -- Finocchio / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Pomodori / Adele Regina La Barre -- lovers and other dead animals / Vittoria Repetto -- Tripe / Lucia Perillo -- Let them eat cake / Anne Calcagno -- Parable / Anne Marie Macari -- Rosette / Susanne Antonetta -- Basil / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Love lettuce / Flavia Alaya -- The room / Anne Marie Macari -- Hunger / Donna Masini -- Dealing with broccoli rabe / Rosette Capotorto -- Sunday / Adria Bernardi -- The oven / Rosette Capotorto -- Ravioli, artichokes, and figs / Nancy Savoca -- Seventeenth Street : Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Passing it on / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- You were always escaping / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Poem / Dorothy Barresi -- Coffee an' / Joanna Clapps Herman -- Jeanie / Phyllis Capello -- Working men / Phyllis Capello -- Moving in and moving up / Donna Masini -- Fatso / Mary Capello -- The lives of the saints / Susanne Antonetta -- After we bury her / Dorian Cirrone -- Ma, who told me you forgot how to cry / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- The day Anna stopped making a-beetz / Suzanne Branciforte -- My mother's career at Skip's Luncheonette / Janet Zandy -- Secret gardens / Janet Zandy -- The exegesis of eating / Alane Salierno Mason -- The vinegarroon / Dorothy Barresi -- Triple bypass / Annie Lanzillotto -- Last supper / Jennifer Lagier -- New Year's Eve / Dorian Cirrone -- Baked ziti / Kym Ragusa -- What they'll say in a thousand years / Maria Terrone -- Polenta / Denise Calvetti Michaels -- Lament in good weather / Lucia Perillo -- Mafioso / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Picking apricots with Zia Antonia / Maria Fama -- Mortadella / Rosanna Colasurdo -- Keeping the wheat and let the chaff lie / Mary Ann Mannino -- The northside at seven / Lucia Perillo -- Words / Maria Laurino -- How to sing to a Dago / Rachel Guido deVries -- The post-rapture diner / Dorothy Barresi -- Cutting the bread / Louise DeSalvo

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Italian American women writers on food and culture

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