Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen

by Judith Newton

Publisher:

She Writes Press

, 2025

Overview

Tasting Home is the history of a woman’s emotional education, the romantic tale of a marriage between a straight woman and a gay man, and an exploration of the ways that cooking can lay the groundwork for personal healing, intimate relation, and political community. Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped author Judith Newton’s life, Tasting Home takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the cuisines, cultural spirit, and politics of the 1940s through 2011, complete with recipes.

Product Details

• Title: Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen
• Author: Judith Newton
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 323
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781938314094, 9781938314032, 1938314034, 1938314093
• Resource ID: LLS:9781938314094
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-14T17:58:18Z

About Judith Newton

Judith Newton is professor of women and gender studies at University of California, Davis. She is the author and editor of many books, including Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 and Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique. She is currently head of the Consortium for Women and Research at UC Davis.