So Ms Fussell cooked and cooked she cooked like many middle and upper-middle class women in her generation. The cultural constrictions were formidable and the obstacles were real including, according to the author, a husband who mocked her ambitions and talent. As expected, Ms Fussell threw herself into making a home for her family by cooking sumptuous meals, decorating her large and historic home and taking care of the children yet Ms Fussell also wanted a career of her own. She went from a loveless childhood to a difficult marriage and using cooking metaphors (The Invasion of Warring Blenders) she describes the skirmishes and outright battles that occurred between the sexes in post WWII middle class America regarding women's roles. Smart and talented, she lived in the shadow of a"great man" in academia during the 1950's. My Kitchen Wars is a dense, furious and absorbing read by food journalist Betty Fussell. From Princeton to Heidelberg and from London to Provence, Fussell ladles out food, sex, and travel with her wooden spoon, welcoming all who come to the table. My Kitchen Wars is a revelation of the author's lifelong love affair with food-cooking it, eating it, and sharing it-no matter where or with whom she finds herself. In this witty and candid autobiographical mock epic, Fussell survives a motherless household during the Great Depression, gets married to the well-known writer and war historian Paul Fussell after World War II, goes through a divorce, and finally escapes to New York City in her mid-fifties, batterie de cuisine intact. A fierce and funny memoir of kitchen and bedroom from James Beard Award winner Betty Fussell A survivor of the domestic revolutions that turned American television sets from Leave It to Beaver to The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Julia Child's The French Chef, food historian and journalist Betty Fussell has spotlighted the changes in American culture through food over the last half century in nearly a dozen books.
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