Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women

Index

Index Abarca, Félix, 22, 125, 172, 197 Abarca, Hugo Uriel, 125, 197 Abarca, Juan, 22, 112, 172, 193 Abarca, Juan Antonio (Paqui), 16, 48, 178 Abarca, Salvador (Chava), 23, 172 Abarca, Verónica: cooking as a way of establishing community, 128–29; life story, 16; preparing chilaquiles , 70–71; recipe as personal narrative , 127 Active Voice, 194, 205 aesthetics, 11, 78, 113, 192; aesthetic value, 32, 80–82; as affirmation of self, 81; of the moment, 100– 108 Aesthetics across the Color Line, 171, 181 A Feast of Words: For Lovers of Food and Fiction, 136 “A Feeling for Form,” 186 Agrest, Diana I., 33, 35, 174–75 Aguililla, Michoacán, 14–15, 45– 46, 177 Ahrentzen, Sherry, 22, 172, 174, 175 Alarcón, Norma, 171, 190, 191–92 al gusto/a su gusto (to your liking), 68– 71, 74–75, 119, 128, 138, 141, 170; as determinant of subjectivity, 111; as feminist culinary theoretical concept, 68 ama de casa (lover of the home), 44, 48– 49, 178 American Kitchen 1700 to the Present, 173 André, María Claudia, 138, 201, 202 Angell, Katherine, 86 Another Way to Be, 204 Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender , Meaning, and Power, 181 Antigüedades de la Nueva España, 191 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 121, 176, 191, 196; “Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics,” 212 Apatzingán, Michoacán, 14, 46, 167, 169, 177, 208–209 Appadurai, Arjun, 113, 194 Appetite: Food as Metaphor, 136, 201 Arau, Alfonso, 79 architecture: as cultural code, 13, 18– 19, 33–36, 173 Architecture from Without: Theoretical Framing for a Critical Practice, 33, 174–75 Aristotle, 55, 57, 80 Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell, 58, 180, 204 Around the Tuscan Table, 194 Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy, 79 “Arte Chicano: Images of a Community ,” 82 art-in-process, 81–83, 90, 94, 98, 106– 108, 188; as a challenge to social norms, 188, 192; as field of study, 96; merit of, 92; outside of the Western definition of aesthetics, 100–101; as theoretical challenge, 88; of tortilla-making, 190 artistic meals, 79 Artists in Aprons: Folk Art by American Women, 82 art of practice, 81–82 Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, 187 art vs. craft, 79–85 Art Worlds, 187 Atlisco, Puebla, 41, 96, 190 authenticity, 28, 120–22 authentic presence (of food), 105 Axel, Gabriel, 79 Babette’s Feast, 79 Batman, 186 Batstone, Kathleen, 138, 202, 203 Bauer, Arnold J., 65–66, 182 Bay Window, California, 76, 185 Becker, Howard S., 187 “Beyond the Anti-Aesthetic,” 193 biculturalism, 122 Billy, Susan, 105–106 Black Looks: Race and Representations, 142– 43, 202 Bloom, Harold, 186 Bluest Eye, 135–36, 139, 202 Bocuse, Paul, 84 Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo, 31, 99, 144, 191, 202 Borderlands/La Frontera, 121, 196 borderless boundary zone, 24, 33, 36– 38, 40, 45 Boydston, Jeanne, 30, 173, 174 Breedlove, Pecola (Toni Morrison), 139– 40 Brinson Curiel, Bárbara, 153–54, 204, 205 broccoli salad, 126 Brown, Gillian, 140– 41, 173, 202 Buchtenkirch, Lyde, 85 Building with Our Hands: New Directions of Chicana/o Studies, 187 Bulnes, Francisco, 96, 190 Burciaga, José Antonio, 122, 192, 196 California cuisine, 16 California Culinary Art Academy in South Pasadena, California, 16, 106 Californios, 113 Cantú, Norma E., 185 Cárdenas, María Luisa (Licha): chemical culinary understanding, 64; cooking as a form of self-giving, 167; cooking as a way of establishing community, 167; economic hardship, 167; formal education, 167; importance of healthy food, 170; language, 169; learning to cook, 168; life story, 166; religion, 167 carne ranchera, 133, 201 carrot salad, 124, 126 Castellanos, Rosario, 149–53, 203, 204 Castillo, Debra, 37, 175 Cervantes, Lorna Dee, 135, 201 Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, 176 charla culinaria, 4–5, 8–10, 11, 78, 101, 164 charla matrimonial, 40, 178 Chava. See Salvador Abarca chemical reactions, 64; cooking as a way of establishing community, 119; economics, 27; kitchen as a place of obligatory labor, 19; life story, 13; marriage as a catalyst for change, 19; methodological process of making enchiladas, 69– 70, 111; non-written recipes, 74– 75; preparing beans, 66–67; sexuality , 26–27; sazón as cognitive sensory-logic, 63–64; sociocultural etiquette, 121–22 Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, 115, 185 Chicana Voices, 187 232 Index chilaquiles, 3 Child of Many Rivers: Journeys To and From The Rio Gande, 17 chiles en nogada, 75, 127–28, 198 Chiltepin (Edna Escamill...