Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.
Ch. 1. Living the Kitchen Life -- Ch. 2. Cooks' Time: Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work -- Ch. 3. The Kitchen as Place and Space -- Ch. 4. The Commonwealth of Cuisine -- Ch. 5. The Economical Cook: Organization as Business -- Ch. 6. Aesthetic Constraints -- Ch. 7. The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse -- Ch. 8. The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life -- Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen: Issues and Cases