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Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
Title:
Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
ISBN:
9781936787791
Physical Description:
ix, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Each essay is accompanied with a recipe.
Contents:
Leaves / Comfort with eggs / The taste of consolation / Long sleeves / Homesick at the outer edge of the world / A brief recipe for happiness / Meals of my twenties / Dessert / General Tso / Friends, grief, and green chilies / Sierra Leone, 1997 / Sack lunch / Merenguitos / A grain of comfort / What I ate / Julia's stepchild / Non-alcoholic food / Bake your fear / The sweet potato year / The dinner / Minute rice and other miracles / No Alzheimer's in India / One sip at a time / Dark leaves and warm milk / Cleanse / Calculated destruction / Depression pancakes / Authentic African cooking / Grief pickles / Spaghetti and books / The boudin trail
Summary:
This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times--be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache.
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