This article concerns culinary motifs found in popular women’s fiction at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Women’s fiction is either indifferent to culinary topics or interested in them as a theme, metaphor or recipe. Culinary topics as the main theme appear in novels written by Kalicińska, Enerlich, and Ficner-Ogonowska. I. Sowa employs a culinary code as a metaphor for contemporary urban life style which is marked by consumerism, excess of consumer goods and an intense rivalry. Kalicińska’s novel cycle is an example of downshifting narratives appreciated by some feminists as a way to promote ecology and a women’s community. Culinary novels authored by Enerlich and Ogonowska do not popularize the culinary culture, but rather commercialize it.
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