{"product_id":"my-kitchen-wars-a-memoir-9780803220973","title":"My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir","description":"Although \u003ci\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons--the \u003ci\u003ebatterie de cuisine\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMy Kitchen Wars\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into a one-woman play performed in Hollywood and New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803220973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.48w x 0.53d","brand":"Betty Fussell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643630383260,"sku":"9780803220973","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_23679064-15cd-49e1-a29e-45329c1ce21e.jpg?v=1603856976","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-kitchen-wars-a-memoir-9780803220973","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}