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Article: A delicious blend of cookery and spirituality.(The Women in God's Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Spiritual Writing)(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 10, 2006
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THE WOMEN IN GOD'S KITCHEN: COOKING, EATING, AND SPIRITUAL WRITING By Cristina Mazzoni Continuum, 222 pages, $24.95
"The Lord walks among the pots and pans," exclaimed St. Teresa of Avila in the 16th century, "Entre los pucheros anda el Senor." And feast, fast, famine all "inform our journey of faith," writes Cristina Mazzoni in the introduction to her new book, The Women in God's Kitchen.
Dr. Mazzoni, professor of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont, approaches the world as a literary critic. But she also cooks the food of her native Italy. Her passion for the kitchen peppers her writing and analysis. In The Women in God's Kitchen, she serves ...