Loaves & wishes : writers writing on food / edited by Antonia Till.

Loaves and wishes

London : Virago Press, 1992.

xi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Logo on title page: Fifty years Oxfam, working for a fairer world.

Published in conjunction with Oxfam in celebration of Oxfam's fiftieth anniversary.

Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.

Listen to mother / Maeve Binchy -- Famine / Germaine Greer -- Of kitchens and goddesses / Shashi Deshpande -- Dishwashing / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf -- Noodle sounds / Chinatsu Nakayama, translated by Elizabeth Wood -- Protection you can trust / Sohaila Abdulali -- Buns are the lowest form of wheat / Kathy Lette -- Diminishing plenty / Margaret Drabble -- 'Bread' from Murder in the dark / Margaret Atwood -- Dada Fatima's kitchen / Rana Kabbani -- La mer à la cuisine / Benoîte Groult, translated by Antonia Till -- From: Nursery food / Molly Keane -- A language all of its own / Susie Orbach -- The bigger eat the smaller / Robyn Archer -- From: The golden notebook / Doris Lessing -- Of national dishes: Curried goat or curried sheep? / Elean Thomas -- Mother love / Sara Maitland -- The first time / Marina Warner -- Of memories and meals / Attia Hosain -- Afterword: About Oxfam / Robert Cornword.