Pt. 1. Reflections on family, food, and ethnicity. Mac and gravy / Paul Christensen ; Humble pie / Cathie English ; Dalia Carmel: a menu of food memories / Leanne Trapedo Sims ; Writing and cooking, cooking and writing / Lynn Z. Bloom ; My mother's recipes: the diary of a Swedish American daughter and mother / Linda Murray Berzok ; The triumph of Fassoulia, or Aunt Elizabeth and the beans / Arlene Voski Avakian -- Pt. 2. Changing relations to ethnic food. Los chilaquiles de mi 'ama: the language of everyday cooking / Meredith E. Abarca ; "In the kitchen family bread is always rising!": women's culture and the gringa imagination / Doris Friedensohn ; Let's cook Thai: recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke ; Gendered feasts: a feminist reflects on dining in New Orleans / Heather Schell.