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Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote (Janet Theophano) Southern - South Carolina as well as the sought-afterIn Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well as the body. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. Beginning in the seventeenth century and moving up through the present day, Theophano reads between the lines of