7 Books About Women and Food - Electric Literature

7 Books About Women and Food - Electric Literature

What we eat in literature tells its own story. A pie? That’s the story of hard work, perseverance, dedication to craft. A ripe peach is the story of sunlight and sweetness and deep roots. A roast chicken, skin burnished a deep brown, might tell a story of home. As I wrote about food–and my own complicated relationship with it and with restaurants–in my book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, I spent a lot of time thinking not onl…