Exile Cookbooks: Recipes, Remembrances and Resilience After the Spanish Civil War
Abstract
This essay discusses three cookbooks by women exiled in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the life stories they told through their recipes. It argues that they used cooking to heal from the trauma of being forced away and to communicate their resistance to Francisco Franco’s regime.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Culinary Culture and Tourism
Medicine and Dermatology Studies History
Hispanic-African Historical Relations
Publication details
- Journal / source
- a/b Auto/Biography Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 31–48
- Publication date
- 2 January 2026
- Language
- EN