Life from scratch : a memoir of food, family, and forgiveness
Title:
Life from scratch : a memoir of food, family, and forgiveness
Author:
ISBN:
9781426213748
Physical Description:
352 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Conflict of heritage. Living room kitchen ; A lifetime past ; Lean years ; Just desserts ; Fallen branches ; The new order ; White flag of surrender -- Another menu. Innocent abroad ; The better part of a minute ; Salt of the land ; On borrowed time -- Cleaving. School days ; Reunion and remembrance ; Sizing things up ; Moving on ; The other side of the kitchen -- Stirrings. My Oklahoma ; Mr. Picky ; All that I could want ; Cinnamon eyes ; A baby and a blog -- True spice. Afghanistan or bust ; World on a plate ; Stove top travel ; The world close by ; 21 layers of memory ; Burnt chicken ; One family -- Feast of nations. A true global table.
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Summary:
"It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook--and eat--a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became more determined than ever to find peace and elevate her life through the prism of food and world cultures. From the tiny, makeshift kitchen of her eccentric, creative mother, to a string of foster homes, to the house from which she launches her own cooking adventure, Marin's heartfelt, brutally honest memoir reveals the power of cooking to bond, to empower, and to heal--and celebrates the simple truth that happiness is created from within"--
