Introduction / Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta
Rose and Pink and Round / Carole Maso
Aperitivo / Mary Bucci Bush
Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt / Dorothy Barresi
Beer. Milk. The Dog. My Old Man / Kim Addonizio
Italian Grocer / Rachel Guido deVries
Smoke and Fire / Mary Saracino
Sacred Hearts and Tar / Donna Masini
Kitchen Communication / Camilla Trinchieri
Dizzy Spells / Dorothy Bryant
My Children's Names / Janet Zandy
Jazzman / Mary Russo Demetrick
Bedtime Story / Kim Addonizio
Seven Sacraments / Mary Beth Caschetta
Kissing the Bread / Sandra M. Gilbert
Pomegranate / Lucia Perillo
Anthology Poems / Mary Ann Mannino
Prodigal Daughter / Dorothy Barresi
Giara of Memory / Edvige Giunta
Go to Hell / Nancy Caronia
Motherlove / Mary Jo Bona
We Begin with Food, Breakfast in My Seventeenth Year / Rosette Capotorto
Bone, Veins, and Fat / Cheryl Burke
Origins of Milk / Daniela Gioseffi
Broke / Rosette Capotorto
Other People's Food / Pamela E. Barnett
What I Ate Where / Diane di Prima
Stereotype / Rosette Capotorto
My Grandmother, a Chicken, and Death / Regina Barreca
"No Thank You, I Don't Care for Artichokes," / Sandra M. Gilbert
Hot Peppers / Rina Ferrarelli
If You Were a Boy / Rosette Capotorto
Tridicinu and 'Mmaculata / Gioia Timpanelli
She's doing the dishes / Vittoria Repetto
Pasta poem / Vittoria Repetto
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner / Agnes Rossi
I Can Be Bread / Anne Marie Macari
Finocchio / Sandra M. Gilbert
Pomodori / Adele Regina La Barre
Lovers and other dead animals / Vittoria Repetto
Let Them Eat Cake / Anne Calcagno
Parable / Anne Marie Macari
Rosette / Susanne Antonetta
Basil / Sandra M. Gilbert
Love Lettuce / Flavia Alaya
Dealing with Broccoli Rabe / Rosette Capotorto
Ravioli, Artichokes, and Figs / Nancy Savoca
Seventeenth Street: Paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Passing It On / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
You Were Always Escaping / Maria Mazzotti Gillan
Coffee an' / Jonna Clapps Herman
Working Men / Phyllis Capello
Moving In and Moving Up / Donna Masini
Lives of the Saints / Susanne Antonetta
After We Bury Her / Dorian Cirrone
Ma, Who Told Me You Forgot How to Cry / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Day Anna Stopped Making A-Beetz / Susanne Branciforte
My Mother's Career at Skip's Luncheonette / Janet Zandy
Secret Gardens / Janet Zandy
Exegesis of Eating / Alane Salierno Mason
Vinegarroon / Dorothy Barresi
Triple Bypass / Annie Lanzillotto
Last Supper / Jennifer Lagier
New Year's Eve / Dorian Cirrone
What They'll Say in a Thousand Years / Maria Terrone
Polenta / Denise Calvetti Michaels
Lament in Good Wealther / Lucia Perillo
Mafioso / Sandra M. Gilbert
Picking Apricots with Zia Antonia / Maria Fama
Mortadella / Rosanna Colasurdo
Keep the Wheat and Let the Chaff Lie / Mary Ann Mannino
Northside at Seven / Lucia Perillo
How to Sing to a Dago / Rachel Guido deVries
Post-Rapture Diner / Dorothy Barresi
Cutting the Bread / Louise DeSalvo.
