Kitchenspace : women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexic o - Christie, Maria Elisa (Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008)
Foreword: At the kitchen table / Mary Weismantel -- Preface -- Ackno wledgments -- A taste of three places -- Introduction -- Points of depa rture -- Women of the circle -- Xochimilco: "Short on days to celebrate our fiestas" -- Ocotepec: "Not letting the city eat this town up" -- T etecala: "Here mangos used to be like gold" -- Kitchenspace narratives -- Women of Tetecala: "You have to be ingenious in the kitchen!" -- Wom en of Xochimilco: "It is better for the pots to awaken upside down" -- Women of Ocotepec: "We used to have a lot of pigs" -- Food for thought -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
Keywords: Fasts and feasts -- Mexico; Kitchens -- Mexico; Social networks; Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions; Mexico -- Social life and customs