macroscopicentric's review against another edition
Part memoir, part manifesto, but all told via vignettes with lovely prose and few points (beyond unlearning systems of oppression as related to cooking). I really loved the memoir parts of this, but the less personal parts felt more like an uncoordinated litany of feminist and queer theory that only felt possible to track because I’ve read a lot of the primary sources and already knew where Johnson was trying to go.
janna710's review against another edition
I thought I was picking up a memoir about cooking but this book is really an academic analysis about how cooking is viewed. Needless to say, this was not what I was looking for. I found it frustrating that the author made many claims about how cooking is devalued due to the feminization of the craft, but it's unclear what claims she is actually responding to.
flowerrunner's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
1.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual content