Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain Ingram Rebecca
Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain Ingram Rebecca Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2023--Best Women of the World Book, SpainWe are living in a moment in which famous…
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Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain Ingram Rebecca
Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2023--Best Women of the World Book, SpainWe are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. Even with this widespread global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain's modernity and, relatedly, the roles ascribed to the modern Spanish women responsible for daily cooking.Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in multiple genres and media. This has prompted the Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of Spanish patrimony.
Women's Work offers a sharp reading of diverse sources, placed in their historical context, that yields a better understanding of the roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process.