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The Spinster Cookbook : Culture, politics and pleasure in the single woman's kitchen - Eli Davies blhhgf the elites of Brazil's sugar-ethanolThe Spinster Cookbook is a piercing exploration of what it means to cook for one in a society designed for couples and families. With sharp cultural insight, Eli Davies takes us on a culinary tour of the single woman's kitchen, a space shaped as much by a search for freedom as by appetite. The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care and company. But how does