adolescent girls, 10, 48, 57, 68, 130n8

Afrodita (Allende), 10, 30, 38–40, 42–43, 45

agency, 12, 23, 51, 126–127

aging, 10–11, 45, 69–70

anorexic and anorexia nervosa, 6, 86–87, 130n8, 134n5

appearance, 21, 37, 47, 54, 114

appetite, 4, 9, 11, 14, 35, 40, 85–86

aroma, 12, 38, 40, 100, 111–112

Atwood, Margaret, 87

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 56

Beauvoir, Simone de, 25, 69, 72

Berger, John, 64

Bible and biblical, 2, 65, 73, 80

black people, 27, 51, 74, 77–78, 110–113, 120

body image, ix, 6, 12, 47, 75–76, 79, 81, 96, 124–125, 129n8

body size, 48, 50, 77, 85

Bordo, Susan, 47–48, 86

boundaries, 10, 29, 85, 105–106

Bruch, Hilde, 86

bulimic and bulimia, 11–12, 86–93, 125, 130n8, 134n5

cannibalism, 79, 100

Caramelo (Cisneros), 12, 96–99, 108

Castillo, Debra, 7, 23

cellulite, 44

Chicano(s)/Chicana(s) (heritage/culture), 7, 12, 96–99, 102–106, 108, 124, 130n10

Cixous, Hélène, 17, 27, 66, 113

Como agua para chocolate (Esquivel), 10, 29–30, 32–34, 36–37, 39, 45, 131n1

cookbook, 10, 17–19, 22, 30–32, 35, 38–39, 42, 45, 124

consumption, 4, 7, 66, 87, 96, 124, 126–127

Cortázar, Julio, 58, 73, 132

culinary activity, 2, 4, 9–10, 19, 23, 28, 31–34, 75, 123–124

death, 3, 11, 17–18, 20, 33, 38, 63, 69, 89, 98, 120

diet, 1, 11, 37–38, 47, 57, 60, 76, 79, 81–83, 85

eating disorder, ix, 5–9, 11, 85–93, 124, 126, 132n5, 134n5

écriture féminine, 28, 66

El peso de la tentación (Shua), 11, 70, 78, 81, 83

eroticism, 27, 33, 40, 42–43, 55, 65

“Eso de ser bulímica” (Morales), ix, 11, 88–89, 93

Eve, 3–4