Kitchen Talk
Contemporary Women's Prose and Poetry
Edited by Claire Harris & Edna Alford ISBN 9780889950917 Binding Trade Paper Publisher Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date January 14, 2003 Size 152 x 229 mmOut Of Print
Whether we love it or hate it, escape to it or from it, women talk about the one place that both entraps and empowers them ? the kitchen. In this feminist anthology of women's poetry, prose, interviews and oral transcriptions, talk from the kitchen goes public. Here women tell the whole story, reclaiming and revaluing this significant part of their lives.
With contributions from Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, PK Page, Daphne Marlatt, Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Laurence, Lee Maracle, Carol Shields, Joy Kogawa, Annharte, Kristjana Gunnars, Laurie Sarkadi, Dorothy Livesay, Emily Carr, Susan Musgrave and many many more
Edna Alford, FOREWORD / 11
Claire Harris, FOREWORD / 13
Phyllis Webb, INTRODUCTION / 14
MAL DE CUISINE
Gwendolyn MacEwen, A BREAKFAST FOR BARBARIANS / 18
Lorna Crozier, DOMESTIC SCENE / 19
Emily Carr, from THE BOOK OF SMALL / 19
M. Travis Lane, MAL DE CUISINE / 20
Inge Israel, MRS. S. / 21
Leona Gom, APRONS / 22
Myrna Kostash, from ALL OF BABA's CHILDREN / 23
Sharon Butala, from LUNA I 25
Anne Szumigalski, from RAPTURE OF THE DEEP I 29
Inge Israel, MRS. R. / 30
Kim Morrissey, RISING, BATOCHE / 31
Marlene Nourbese Philip, BURN SUGAR / 33
Liliane Welch, CALLIGRAPHY OF A MARITIME KITCHEN / 39
Lois Simmie, from THEY SHOULDN'T MAKE YOU PROMISE THAT/ 39
Susan Musgrave, "CONVERSATION DURING THE OMELETTE AUX FINES HERBES" / 47
Inge Israel, MRS. A. / 48
Inge Israel, MRS. P. / 49
Leona Gom, WAITING / 49
Jane Rule, from MEMORY BOARD / 50
Gabrielle Roy, from THE TIN FLUTE / 57
Audrey Thomas, MOTHERING SUNDAY/ 63
Nadine McInnis, RELIQUARY/ 67
Mary di Michele, THE DISGRACE / 68
Sharon H. Nelson, SEPTEMBER / 71
Bronwen Wallace, FOOD / 72
alice lee, HOSTAGE / 76
Lynn Neumann McDowell, COOL WHIP AND OLD LACE / 76
Irene Boisier, KITTENS / 79
Brenda Baker, THE COLLECTION / 83
COFFEE ON MARY HILL
Su Croll, UNMIXED GOOD / 86
Susanna Moodie, from ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH / 87
Inge Israel, MRS. B. / 89
Sarah Murphy, from XMAS BAKING: A CHOOSE YOUR OWN MORALITY TALE/ 89
Rosemary Sullivan, THE TABLE / 96
Maria Campbell, from HALFBREED / 97
Leona Gom, MOTHER WITH CHILD / 98
Barbara Sapergia, EATING AVOCADOS / 99
Ruby Slipperjack, from HONOUR THE SUN / 111
Aritha van Herk, from THE TENT PEG / 117
Beatrice Culleton, from IN SEARCH OF APRIL RAINTREE / 120
Cathy Ford, from TEETH / 123
Rose Miller, A SASKATCHEWAN KITCHEN / 125
Laura Vocat, KITCHEN SECRETS / 127
L.A Martinuik, COFFEE ON MARY HILL / 129
Beth Brant, HUNGER OF ANOTHER KIND / 131
THE LADY OF THE HOUSE
Miriam Waddington, THE HOUSE ON HAZELTON / 140
Joan Barfoot, from DANCING IN THE DARK / 144
Rita Wong, HAVE YOU EATEN YET: TWO INTERVIEWS / 149
Joy Kogawa, from ITSUKA / 158
Joan Clark, ITALIAN SAPAGHETTI / 160
Daphne Marlatt, LISTEN / 170
Shirley A Serviss, PRESERVATION / 171
Laurie Sarkadi, INTERVIEW WITH JOY SULUK / 172
Pat Jasper, MORNINGS LIKE THIS / 175
Dorothy Livesay, THIE TAMING / 177
Kristjana Gunnars, IN THIS KITCHEN/ 178
Jagruti Dholakia, SUNANDA / 178
Miriam Waddington, PROFILE OF AN UNLIBERATED WOMAN / 180
Lee Maracle, SURVIVAL WORK / 180
Inge Israel, MRS. V. / 186
Sandra Birdsell, SPRING CLEANING / 186
Susan Glickman, LIVING ALONE / 195
P.K. Page, BRAZILIAN HOUSE / 196
Maxine Tynes, BORROWED BEAUTY / 196
Alice Munro, HOW I MET MY HUSBAND/ 199
Julie Emerson, THE LADY OF THE HOUSE / 213
MIXED MESSAGES
Susan Ioannou, KITCHEN TERRITORIAL / 218
Rhea Tregebov, CHEMISTRY / 219
Irene Guilford, HOW TO MAKE PASTA / 220
Anna Mioduchowska, I WISH YOU HAD FLOWN / 223
Carol Shields, from THE BOX GARDEN / 223
Helen J. Rosta, RUTH'S POEM / 225
Erin Mouré, POLONAISE / 232
Sharon H. Nelson, THE WOMAN'S TESTIMONY / 233
Katherine Beeman, EATING CAJUN / 236
Susan Musgrave, LOVE WASN'T ALWAYS / 236
Judith Stuart, PASTRY HOOK/ 237
Pat Lowther, KITCHEN MURDER / 238
Adele Wiseman, from THE SACRIFICE / 238
Margaret Atwood, from THE EDIBLE WOMAN I 247
Maureen Harris, I SPY MOTHER CUPBOARD / 253
Su Croll, BONES AND BREAD / 254
Marilyn Bowering, MARRIED WOMAN'S COMPLAINT / 256
Beverley Harris, SUMMER IN FULL BLOOM / 257
Susan Glickman, CHOCOLATE: A LOVE POEM / 258
Annharte, HIS KITCHEN / 259
Laurie Sarkadi, INTERVIEW WITH MURIEL BETSINA / 259
Claire Harris, CHILD THIS IS THE GOSPEL ON BAKES / 263
Jan Truss, MIXED MESSAGES / 265
Bonnie Burnard, CRUSH / 270
Kate Sutherland, KEEPING HER HOUSE / 275
Kate Braid, RECIPE FOR A SIDEWALK/ 275
Lorna Crozier, DREAMING DOMESTIC / 276
Dorothy Livesay, THE UNQUIET BED / 277
Margaret Laurence, from THE FIRE—DWELLERS / 278
Jennifer Blend, DREAM KITCHEN / 283
Mary di Michele, PIETA '78 / 287
