Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Taste Makers
Mayukh Sen
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Paperback
h211 x 140mm - 304pg
18 Nov 2022 US
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9781324035909
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Who' s really behind America' s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen? a queer, brown child of immigrants? reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what' s on their plate? and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible.
"A fascinating and impeccably researched book. Taste Makers is a joyous celebration of the cooks whose lives have enriched so much of our cooking and eating. " -- Nigel Slater "Taste Makers is essential history for understanding American food' s current reckoning with inclusion and diversity. " -- John Birdsall, author of The Man Who Ate Too Much "Sen is a sensitive and perceptive journalist and a deft historian; his willingness to let his subjects speak for themselves whenever possible gives his book a compelling power. . . he succeeds in amplifying the voices of seven overlooked women to the levels that they always deserved. " -- Hetty McKinnon - The New York Times "Through his seven portraits, Sen restores a missing part of American culinary history, drawing on interviews, reviews and menus to create a compelling story about the love of food, the pull of the tastes of one' s homeland, the delicious pleasure of sharing the richness and complexity of your most cherished recipes with strangers at your table. " -- Nilanajana Roy - Financial Times
Mayukh Sen is a James Beard and IACP Award-winning writer based in Brooklyn. His work has been anthologized in two editions of The Best American Food Writing. He teaches food journalism at New York University.
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ISBN-13: 9781324035909
Published: 18 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 268g
Pages: 304

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