Kitchenspace

Christie, Maria Elisa.

Kitchenspace women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico / [electronic resource] : Maria Elisa Christie ; foreword by Mary Weismantel. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. - xxiv, 308 p. : ill., map. - Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture . - Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.

Foreword: At the kitchen table / Mary Weismantel -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A taste of three places -- Introduction -- Points of departure -- Women of the circle -- Xochimilco: "Short on days to celebrate our fiestas" -- Ocotepec: "Not letting the city eat this town up" -- Tetecala: "Here mangos used to be like gold" -- Kitchenspace narratives -- Women of Tetecala: "You have to be ingenious in the kitchen!" -- Women of Xochimilco: "It is better for the pots to awaken upside down" -- Women of Ocotepec: "We used to have a lot of pigs" -- Food for thought -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.


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Fasts and feasts--Mexico.
Kitchens--Mexico.
Social networks--Mexico.
Women--Social conditions.--Mexico


Mexico--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

GT4814.A2 / C47 2008eb

394.1/20972