Ann Cooper, Executive Chef, The Putney Inn, Putney, Vermont, chronicles the history of women's roles in cooking and kitchens, discusses what choices and sacrifi

Discover the trailblazing women who changed the world from their kitchens. If "a woman's place is in the kitchen," why is the history of food such an old boys'

Provides an overview of 20th century women's lives, covering what the reader want to know about the suffragettes, early 'type-writers', contraception, and work

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs th

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal