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A darkly comic memoir of the "kitchen wars" traces one woman's struggles in the post-war period as she wages war on the Puritanism of her upbringing and the social strictures preventing her from a host of pleasures, both carnal and professional. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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My Kitchen Wars is a war story-but the warrior is a woman, the battleground is the kitchen, and the weapons are the batterie de cuisine with which Betty Fussell evokes her era's domestic battles. As much about hunger-emotional, sexual, intellectual-as it is about food, this fierce and funny memoir takes no prisoners.
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