Part autobiographical novel and part cookbook, Keeping House tells the story of a young Italian woman struggling to find self-definition and self-identity. Born into a prominent Jewish Italian family full of strong personalities and colorful figures, Clara narrates the humorous, dramatic, and often poignant events that inform her life. Intertwining recipes with her narrative, Clara uses food as markers for the cornerstones of her life, allowing her to discover and remember both public and private events—a Yom Kippur dinner, fascism and antifascism, the early years of the young Italian republic, the politics and culture of the Italian left, the openness of the 1960s and ’70s, and the retreat into privacy of the 1980s.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface
Acknowledgments
Translators’ Note
Introduction
1 For a Baby
2 Appetizers
3 First Courses
4 Second Courses
5 Eggs
6 Vegetables
7 Sweets
8 Preserving
Notes
Works Cited
Circa l’autore
Clara Sereni is an award-winning Italian writer residing in Perugia, Italy. She is the author of several novels and a collection of short stories.
Giovanna Miceli Jeffries teaches Italian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the author of
Letteratura e Lavoro nella narrativa di Italo Svevo and editor of
Feminine Feminists: Cultural Practices in Italy.
Susan Briziarelli is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of San Diego. She is the author of
Enrico Annibale Butti: The Case of the Minor Writer.
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