Description:
- Examines the tight association between food and the autobiographical impulse
- Examines the performative capability of autobiography
- Reviews the genre of masculine food autobiographies from the 1980s to the present
- Reanimates the old debate on the connections between gender and genre
- Addresses the relation between domestic and professional cooking
Review Quotes:
"Pascual Soler elucidates the power of life writing to transform gender roles, making a notable contribution to the scholarship on culinary autobiography." (Alice L. McLean, Biography, Vol. 42 (4), 2019)