Kitchenspace women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christie, Maria Elisa
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: At the kitchen table / Mary Weismantel
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A taste of three places
  • Introduction
  • Points of departure
  • Women of the circle
  • Xochimilco: "Short on days to celebrate our fiestas"
  • Ocotepec: "Not letting the city eat this town up"
  • Tetecala: "Here mangos used to be like gold"
  • Kitchenspace narratives
  • Women of Tetecala: "You have to be ingenious in the kitchen!"
  • Women of Xochimilco: "It is better for the pots to awaken upside down"
  • Women of Ocotepec: "We used to have a lot of pigs"
  • Food for thought
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.