Women's relationships with food are passionate and obsessive, embracing and comforting, complex and frustrating. This sampling of stories - by some of the writers in and out of the food and travel fields - journeys to the heart of these age-old relationships, taking readers from the kitchens of contemporary America to the far reaches of the globe.

Several of today's top women writers contribute their adventures with food and travel in this collection of writings that celebrate women's relationship with food. Authors include M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, Laurie Colwin, and Frances Myers.