Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen [Paperback]

Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped her life,Tasting Homeis the history of Judith Newton's emotional education—including her marriage to a gay man, and an exploration of the ways that cooking can lay the groundwork for personal healing, personal intimacy, and political community.Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis. While at U.C. Davis she directed the Women and Gender Studies program for eight years and the Consortium for Women and Research for four.
She is ; the author and co-editor of five works of non fiction on nineteenth-century British women writers, feminist criticism, women's history, and men's ; movements.
Her most current work has appeared inThe Redwood Coast Review(Winter 2012),poetalk (Summer, 2011), and athttp://tasting-home.comand athttp://ipinion.us/columns/?cat=26. She is currently at work on a feminist mystery and lives in the East Bay of California where she tends her garden.Contents

Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

I. Foods and Fashions of 1936:

The Thirties, Forties, and Fifties

Cry Babies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

The Queen of Pies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Death Valley Date Nut Bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Sour Milk Biscuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Latinaires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Oatmeal Crispies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Sugar Smorgasbord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Loaves and Fishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Graduation Cake . . . . . . .l"