{"product_id":"crazy-in-the-kitchen-foods-feuds-and-forgiveness-in-an-italian-american-family-1582344701","title":"Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1582344701\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e DeSalvo, Louise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots. And, in the process, she reveals that our image of the bounteous Italian American kitchen may exist in part to mask a sometimes painful history.Louise DeSalvo is a writer, professor, lecturer, and scholar who lives in New Jersey. Her many books include the memoirs Vertigo, Breathless, and Adultery; the acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work; and Writing as a Way of Healing. Recently, she edited Woolf's early novel Melymbrosia and coedited The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture.A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover\"Louise DeSalvo packs about six courses of emotional wallop into her slim memoir...[A] tough, courageous story, one of hard-won wisdom and memory.\"-San Francisco Chronicle\"Illuminate[s] the difficulties of reconciling past and present...DeSalvo celebrates the table of her ancestors by savoring her own rediscovered history.\"-New York Times Book Review\"An affecting story of immigrants in America...These recollections are tinged with pain and beauty.\"-Publishers Weekly\"The dramatics of [DeSalvo's] youth, it seems, produced a superior, dedicated writer and a determined, devoted cook who may go a little crazy in the kitchen...[A] juicy, tender text, seasoned with fear, loathing, and love served Italian style.\"-Kirkus ReviewsCrazy in the Kitchen is in the \"Home\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52098209382688,"sku":"NEW1582344701","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/712g0KKKaIL.jpg?v=1785786178","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/crazy-in-the-kitchen-foods-feuds-and-forgiveness-in-an-italian-american-family-1582344701","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}