Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this book illuminates modernist uses of the terms ''civilization'' and ''barbarism'', showing how these concepts are shaped by the rules o...