fashion, 6, 52, 82, 106

fat and fatness, 36, 44, 48–60, 62, 64, 66, 71, 77, 79, 81–82, 89, 105–106, 118, 125, 133n4

female body, ix, 26, 35, 48, 68, 70, 125

Foucault, Michel, 47, 92, 133n6

Franco, Jean, 7

Freire, Espido, 87

Freud, Sigmund, 2, 6, 131n7

Genesis story, 3, 65

Getting Home Alive (Levins Morales, Morales), 12, 110, 114–115, 121

Gordas: Historia de una batalla (Velázquez), ix, 10, 48–50, 52–53, 57

gluttony, 18, 40, 91

grotesque, 27, 56, 66

heavy set, 44, 54, 57, 64, 68

hunger, 15, 51, 57, 59, 87, 119

identity, 10, 12, 20, 23, 52, 64, 67, 70, 78, 85, 96–99, 103, 106, 108–110, 113–119, 121, 124

“Inmensamente Eunice” (Blanqué), ix, 11, 48, 63–64, 66, 132n10

intertextuality, 49–50, 65, 80

Irigaray, Luce, 27, 86, 113, 125, 132n6

Jewish, 70, 74, 78–79, 114, 117–121

juissance, 66, 107

kitchen, 3–10, 15–18, 21, 23–24, 29, 33, 35, 38, 76, 102, 118–120, 124–125, 136n2

Kristeva, Julia, 28, 49

Lacan, Jacques, 67, 106, 125, 132n5

“La cocina de la escritura” (Ferré), 9, 24–25, 28, 131n13

Latino/Latina (heritage/culture), 95–96, 106, 109, 124–125

“Lección de cocina” (Castellanos), 9, 16–17, 22

Leonardi, Susan, 31–32

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1–2

Los viajes de mi cuerpo (Nissán), 11, 70, 133n4

“Marina y su olor” (Santos Febres), 12, 110, 135n2, 135n4

marriage, 20–21, 25, 72–73

memoir, 10, 30, 39, 124

Mexican (heritage/culture), 13, 16–17, 20, 22, 27, 30, 33, 42, 49–50, 54–57, 70–74, 96–108, 130n3

mirror, 52–53, 67, 75, 79, 83, 106, 125–126, 132nn5–6

mother, 2, 24–26, 28, 35, 59, 62–63, 78, 96–97

mother–daughter relationship, 30, 39, 42, 53–54, 60–61, 72, 76, 81–82, 87, 98, 101–102, 104–105, 107, 111, 119

movie, 21, 75, 103

Muerta de hambre (García Lao), 10, 48, 57–58, 62