Chapter 13: Beyond Size and Weight: Gianna Schelotto's 'La ragazza che mangiava la luna' (1992) (Francesca Calamita, University of Virginia) -- Chapter 14: Happy Hours: Food, Politics and Female Friendship in Silvia Ballestra's Amiche mie (Claudia Bernardi, Victoria University of Wellington).

Introduction -- Part I: Gender and Social Norms in Food Writings -- Chapter 1: She is not selfish enough to analyze and favor these sensual pleasures : The Role of Women in Nineteenth Century Italian Taste (Daniele De Feo, Princeton University) -- Chapter 2: Marcella cucina: Marcella Hazan and the Authority of the Italian Cookbook (Danielle Callegari, University of California, Berkeley College) -- Chapter 3: Domestic Labour, Everyday Pleasure and Perspective in Simonetta Agnello Hornby's Culinary Memoirs Un filo d'olio and Il pranzo di Mose (Georgia Wall, University of Warwick) -- Part II: Food, Womanhood and the Italian South -- Chapter 4: Food, Adultery, and the Pursuit of the Modern in Matilde Serao's La virtù di Checchina (Luca Cottini, Villanova University) -- Chapter 5: Spiritual Sustenance: Naples' Soul Food in the Narrative Language of Matilde Serao and Elena Ferrante (Pia L. Bertucci, University of South Carolina) -- Chapter 6: Eros and Thanatos Meet in the Southern Kitchens of Italy: Castaldi, Ferrante and Torregrossa (Giovanna Summerfield, Auburn University) -- Chapter 7: The 'Greedy Southern Woman as a National Italian Cliché: A Preliminary Proposal (Teresa Di Somma and Marcello Messina, Universidade Federal Do Acre) -- Part III: Food, Gender and Italian Identity -- Chapter 8: From Pizzaiola to Phenom: Viewing Sophia Loren Through Food (Niki Kiviat, Columbia University) -- Chapter 9: Women's Eccentric and Nomadic Cooking in Fabrizia Ramondino's Althénopi s: When Food Tastes Good and Subversive (Rossella Di Rosa, University of Georgia) -- Chapter 10: Feeding the Body, Feeding the Language: Nourishment as a Metaphor of Writing in Igiaba Scego's Literary Works (Laura-Marzia Lenci, Boston University) -- Part IV: Food, Family and Politics -- Chapter 11: Writing Food: Issues of Female Identity and Gender Politics in Dacia Maraini's Novels (Maria Morelli, University of Leicester) -- Chapter 12: Around the Table: Gender and Generational Conflict in Clara Sereni's Autobiographical Writing (Maria Grazia Scrimieri, University of Côte d'Azur).