"The Cooking Calculus of Sylvia Plath"

Abstract

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poem

“The Cooking Calculus of Sylvia Plath” (poem) explores cunning housewifery, debit and credit, values of The Really Garbage Cookbook vs. The Joy of Cooking (Sivvy’s copy),

the overlay between slang terms for money (dough                            biscuits

clams                  bread

cheese     cabbage

 bones)

with those for food items, adding a soupcon of double entendre, such as, top to tail, making tasty provender of all.