Hunger's Table Women Food Politics Author:Margaret Randall "Hunger's Table ranks alongside Like Water for Chocolate as primary women's texts. The extent to which cooking, collecting recipes, and thinking about [how] our world and our lives are intertwined are explored and laid bare in this brilliant volume. I say about Hunger's Table, eat it! It may be immoral and a tad illegal, but it's not fattening! ... more »Hunger's Table is nourishment for the heart and spirit; a feast." - Paula Gunn Allen
"Margaret Randall takes us from the front lines - where we've admired her courage and insights - to the kitchen in this new collection of poems. Hunger's Table: Women, Food & Politics. We, her readers, find that there is politics in the making of pretzels or Antonio's plain white rice and nourishment in our revolutionary-poet-chef's savory words." - Julia Alvarez
"Margaret Randall is not just a writer, she's everything I believe in." - Barbara Kingsolver
"Margaret Randall is an essential writer whose work must be read to more fully understand life in these Americas." - Alice Walker
"Margaret Randall is always a unique provider, and here the feast is altogether generous. Her bedrock sensibility, her tenacious caring for our common word, her relieving laughter, and her insistently sensuous delight, all are here in abundance. Enjoy!" - Robert Creeley« less