Edited by Arlene Voski Avakian, this compilation brings together essays, stories, poems, and recipes by 40 contributors. For these women, there is a link between food, cooking, and feminism. They talk about the kitchen as a creative workshop and a place where they experience nurturance, sensuous pleasure, and sharing. Barbara Haber sees food as a vehicle enabling her memories to travel whereas Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich views it as her link with others. Aurora Levins Morales celebrates what she does in the kitchen as "a ritual of love and work." Paula Martinac takes another route as she writes about her delights in all the international cuisine available for take-out in New York City. Editor Avakian has assembled a varied and interesting collection of writings on the culinary arts and the ways in which food and cooking express women's passions and hungers.