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Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
Crazy in the Kitchen Food Feuds and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
Author: Louise DeSalvo
With this stunning memoir of growing up in Italian-American New Jersey, Louise DeSalvo proves that your family's past is baked right into the bread you eat. — In Louise DeSalvo's family, in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. As Louise's step-grandmother stubbornly recreates the domestic habits of her So...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781422350997
ISBN-10: 1422350991
Publication Date: 6/26/1905
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub. Ltd. (UK)
Book Type: Hardcover
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miss-info avatar reviewed Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family on + 386 more book reviews
On the one hand, I couldn't put this book down and couldn't stop comparing Louise's mother to my 1st generation German-American grandmother, who went through almost the exact same process of wanting to be American-American. The author writes well and I enjoyed the way she told things.

On the other hand, the story was dark and often depressing, angry throughout, had too much sex for my tastes, was filled with swear-words, and did not really have a happy ending. It did not make me want to pick up any other book by this author, or ever re-read this one.
miss-info avatar reviewed Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family on + 386 more book reviews
On the one hand, I couldn't put this book down and couldn't stop comparing Louise's mother to my 1st generation German-American grandmother, who went through almost the exact same process of wanting to be American-American. The author writes well and I enjoyed the way she told things.

On the other hand, the story was dark and often depressing, angry throughout, had too much sex for my tastes, was filled with swear-words, and did not really have a happy ending. It did not make me want to pick up any other book by this author, or ever re-read this one.