Although "My Kitchen Wars" is a war story, this time the warrior is
a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons--the
"batterie de cuisine" of grills and squeezers and knives--evoke a
lifetime's need to make dinner, love, and war. By prying open the
past with these implements, Betty Fussell gives voice to a
generation of women whose stories were shaped and yet
simultaneously silenced by an era of domestic strife and global
conflict, from World War II to Vietnam. "My Kitchen Wars" also is a
love story, recounting Fussell's liberation from the tyrannical
Puritanism of her family by a veteran of the "Good War," a young
writer named Paul Fussell. But she soon finds herself captive
again, constrained by the roles of faculty wife and mother. Still,
she cannot stop hungering for both a life of the mind and carnal
pleasures. Her inner war to unite body and mind brings down the
marriage in a denouement as brutal as the whack of a cleaver. Yet
Fussell, however bruised, emerges to cook another dinner and to
tell her tale in this fierce and funny memoir. "My Kitchen Wars"
was adapted into a one-woman play performed in Hollywood and New
York.
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