Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens by Rebecca Sharpless (review)

Foodwork: Racialized, gendered and classed labors

“…The conditions under which they worked were exploitative and often violent. As paid live‐in cooks they struggled with householder's racism, sexual violence, and assumptions about their intelligence and honesty, exhaustion, and low wages (Blejwas, 2014). Moreover, whilst they cooked for a living, their own families suffered from hunger and poverty (ibid).…”