The Women in God's Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, And Spirtual Writing - Couverture rigide

Mazzoni, Cristina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826417604 ISBN 13 : 9780826417602

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005

Synopsis

Book by Mazzoni Cristina

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once noted that 'nunneries in the old days were veritable storehouses of the most delectable tidbits.' Perhaps that is why the much-maligned Lucrezia Borgia is said to have truly felt at home only in the company of pious cloistered nuns. In his landmark study, Holy Anorexia, Rudolph Bell focused his attention on holy women who survived on nothing but the eucharistic wafer. Cristina Mazzoni, taking the opposite tack, savors the food writings and images of a broad spectrum of Catholic saints and holy women. A native of Italy and a splendid cook herself, Mazzoni accords due attention to her fellow countrywomen, as well she should given the importance of Italian cookery (Catherine of Genoa, Angela of Foligno, Gemma Galgani), but includes numerous other holy women and their cuisines as well: Germany (Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth of Schönau, and Margaret Ebner), France (Margaret Mary Alacoque, Thérèse of Lisieux), Spain (Teresa of Avila), colonial South America (Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz), England (Margery Kempe), and even the United States (Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church). In her Introduction, Mazzoni invites the reader 'to seek out and savor with me...the food concocted, dished out, bitten into, tasted, and swallowed in the writings of holy women: food that may be mundane, unexceptional, and commonplace, but food that may also be delicious, nutritious, indulgent, or healthful. Whether in the form of stockfish and stew or chocolate and jam, whether cooked as lasagna with greens or curdled into a fine or bitter cheese, this foodthrough metaphors and similes, through anecdotes and memoriesleads to mystical connections, underlines the presence of meaning even, or especially, in the midst of seeming meaninglessness, and leads us to share in the pleasure of cooking, eating, and learning at a divine table in God's kitchen.'

Revue de presse

'Her passion for the kitchen peppers her writing and analysis. In The Women in God's Kitchen, she serves up a delicious fritto misto (mixed fry) in 12 chapters, each revolving around a theme related to different aspects of cooking and eating... Dr. Mazzoni takes old wineskins, so to speak, and pours in new wine, a fresh way of tasting the writings of these holy and sage women....The Women in God's Kitchen opens the kitchen door wide and lets in the reader famished for something nectarous and new. Peering into the pots and pans, the oven and the larder, the reader savors morsels of spirituality hidden up to now. In The Women in God's Kitchen, female voices tell us much about Otherness and community formation in our divided and divisive world, quetly insisting that women find ways to speak wisely while serving and working amid a patriarchal dining room'. --National Catholic Reporter, February 10, 2006

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826417604
• ISBN 13: 9780826417602
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208