Janet Theophano. Eat My Words: Read...

Janet Theophano. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives between the sides of the Cookbooks They Wrote fresh York: Palgrave, 2002. 362 pp 21 ill. ISBN 0-312-23778-7 $2995

Janet Theophano's clearly stated views for working with fix uponed cookbooks are announced early in her volume She aims to "recapture more [i]or[/i] less of these women's previously undiscovered stories and the sensibilities of women whose lives would otherwise remain obscure" and "to expand the significance we usually ascribe to cookbook from considering them as worthy purposes of serious textual analysis" (5)