The Last Generation of Women Who Cook

A cookbook author and an Irish poet silently blame each other for cookbooks and poems destroyed in a fire. A beef barbeque dinner at a dude ranch offers a computer programmer new hope. A pasta dinner shows a recently remarried woman the true colors of her new husband. Women and men struggle with idiosyncrasies and pre-conceived notions in situations where food is key--offering either physical or spiritual nourishment or pleasure, or appearing as a metaphor for love or misguided passion. "Th...