My Kitchen Wars is a war story. This time, though, the warrior is a woman and the battleground is the kitchen. With kitchen implements, Betty Fussell pries open the past, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped but nonetheless silenced by an era of domestic strife and global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam. It's also a love story, the story of Fussell's marriage to World War II veteran and historian Paul Fussell. Captive in the roles of faculty wife and mother, Betty Fussell's inner war brings ...
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My Kitchen Wars is a war story. This time, though, the warrior is a woman and the battleground is the kitchen. With kitchen implements, Betty Fussell pries open the past, giving voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped but nonetheless silenced by an era of domestic strife and global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam. It's also a love story, the story of Fussell's marriage to World War II veteran and historian Paul Fussell. Captive in the roles of faculty wife and mother, Betty Fussell's inner war brings down the marriage, but she emerges to cook another dinner and tell her tale.
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