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Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
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This thesis explores personal experience narratives about making mistakes in the preparation and serving of food. In order to understand when these narratives, referred to in the text as “kitchen nightmares,” are told, to whom, in what form, and why, one-onone and group ethnographic interviews were conducted. In total, 13 interviews were conducted with 25 individuals (men and women) ranging in age from 19 to 70. Six major themes of kitchen nightmare narratives are identified in Chapter One. Chapter Two explores one of these themes, resistance, in the context of the kitchen nightmare stories of heterosexual married women. Chapter Three …