Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe"The kitchen is seasoned with love"The above quote is printed on countless refrigerator magnets and embroidered on tea towels throughout the world; and yet, how many of us ever stop to think about what it really means? After all, why does it matter that such an ethereal and abstract concept as love has meaning in the kitchen, a place supposedly reserved for the preparation of what is necessary only for the maintenance of the physical body? This question can perhaps be best answered by the “little woman” named Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin – written before refrigerators even existed, much less magnets with touching little proverbs. Although it may be overlooked at first glance, the description of the different types of cuisines in Uncle Tom's cabin is in fact a recurring theme in the novel and should not be trivialized. In contrast, Harriet Beecher Stowe uses the image of the kitchen to encapsulate one of the most pertinent aspects of her anti-slavery thesis: that of the importance of home and domestic life in the fight against oppression and injustice. An indoctrinated member of the infamous "Cult of True Womanhood", an unofficial sisterhood designed to combat women's lack of physical and political power by encouraging them to develop the power of influence, Stowe uses representations of this alliance's ideology - the central tenets of which are piety, purity, submission and domesticity – as weapons in his narrative battle against the evils of slavery. Aim these weapons straight at the hearts of readers belonging to the same sisterhood, especially mothers; and which territory should know its female readers more closely... half the newspaper... hey towards freedom. Finding meaning in Stowe's use of kitchen imagery is not too difficult a task; his comparison of Chloe and Dinah's kitchens shows the almost polar variations that can occur in slave families, but the eventual destruction that occurs in both homes demonstrates that no matter how things may appear at first glance, the outcome will always be a tragedy when slavery is in force. the nucleus. The only way to achieve true harmony is through a system that is not based on slavery, as seen in Rachel Halliday's Quaker kitchen example, where the other families' scenarios are reversed and the result is a hopeful end for the country. suffering for the kindness of another human being. Now it's up to us readers to manage our kitchens with the same values ​​of maternal education, compassion for others and, above all, love..