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This thesis explores everyday practices of Peruvian women at the soup kitchen, a self-help organization that feeds poor families. Every day, women put their culinary knowledge into practice and provide people with good tasting food in spite of limited material resources. In addition, these women share experiences and advice, affirm their authority towards male beneficiaries, and resist to the governmental control exercised through a national food aid program. I will argue that through these everyday practices and social interactions, women express forms of resistance. Concurrently, they are able to contest gender, socio-economic and political domination, and construct an identity of proud, active women. This complex and intimate look at the experiences of women at the soup kitchen will be based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Villa Maria del Triunfo, a district on the outskirts of Lima composed largely of migrants who came in town in hopes to construct a better life.