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Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers / edited by Natalie Eve Garrett ; with illustrations by Meryl Rowin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Black Balloon Publishing, 2019Description: ix, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781936787791
  • 1936787792
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Growing pains. Leaves / Diana Abu-Jaber ; Comfort with eggs / Laura van den Berg ; The taste of consolation / Claire Messud ; Long sleeves / Melissa Febos ; Homesick at the outer edge of the world / Anthony Doerr ; A brief recipe for happiness / Heather Sellers ; Meals of my twenties / Carmen Maria Machado -- Loss. Dessert / Colum McCann ; General Tso / Lev Grossman ; Friends, grief, and green chilies / Rosie Schaap ; Sierra Leone, 1997 / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ; Sack lunch / Don Lee ; Merenguitos / Chantel Acevedo ; A grain of comfort / Edwidge Danticat ; What I ate / Nick Flynn -- Healing. Julia's stepchild / Emily Raboteau ; Non-alcoholic food / Aaron Thier ; Bake your fear / Rakesh Satyal ; The sweet potato year / Jessica Soffer ; The dinner / Darin Strauss ; Minute rice and other miracles / Amitava Kumar ; No Alzheimer's in India / Antoine Wilson ; One sip at a time / Alissa Nutting -- Homecoming. Dark leaves and warm milk / Mira Jacob ; Cleanse / Alexander Chee ; Calculated destruction / Porochista Khakpour ; Depression pancakes / Maile Meloy ; Authentic African cooking / Jeffery Renard Allen ; Grief pickles / Kristen Iskandrian ; Spaghetti and books / Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen ; The boudin trail / Natalie Baszile.
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"--Amazon.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 FPL Reading Challenge: Feeling Hungry
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 641.3 E14 Available 33111009396751
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 641.3 E14 Available 33111009538501
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 641.3 E14 Available 33111008249407
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

" Eat Joy is the most lovely food essay book... This is the perfect gift." -Joy Wilson (Joy the Baker)


Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by Martha Stewart Living


"Magnificent illustrations add spirit to recipes and heartfelt narratives. Plan to buy two copies-one for you and one for your best foodie friend." - Taste of Home

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.

Lev Grossman explains how he survived on "sweet, sour, spicy, salty, unabashedly gluey" General Tso's tofu after his divorce. Carmen Maria Machado describes her growing pains as she learned to feed and care for herself during her twenties. Claire Messud tries to understand how her mother gave up dreams of being a lawyer to make "a dressed salad of tiny shrimp and avocado, followed by prune-stuffed pork tenderloin." What makes each tale so moving is not only the deeply personal revelations from celebrated writers, but also the compassion and healing behind the story- the taste of hope.

"If you've ever felt a deep, emotional connection to a recipe or been comforted by food during a dark time, you'll fall in love with these stories."- Martha Stewart Living

Essays and recipes.

Each essay is accompanied with a recipe.

"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"--Amazon.

Growing pains. Leaves / Diana Abu-Jaber ; Comfort with eggs / Laura van den Berg ; The taste of consolation / Claire Messud ; Long sleeves / Melissa Febos ; Homesick at the outer edge of the world / Anthony Doerr ; A brief recipe for happiness / Heather Sellers ; Meals of my twenties / Carmen Maria Machado -- Loss. Dessert / Colum McCann ; General Tso / Lev Grossman ; Friends, grief, and green chilies / Rosie Schaap ; Sierra Leone, 1997 / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ; Sack lunch / Don Lee ; Merenguitos / Chantel Acevedo ; A grain of comfort / Edwidge Danticat ; What I ate / Nick Flynn -- Healing. Julia's stepchild / Emily Raboteau ; Non-alcoholic food / Aaron Thier ; Bake your fear / Rakesh Satyal ; The sweet potato year / Jessica Soffer ; The dinner / Darin Strauss ; Minute rice and other miracles / Amitava Kumar ; No Alzheimer's in India / Antoine Wilson ; One sip at a time / Alissa Nutting -- Homecoming. Dark leaves and warm milk / Mira Jacob ; Cleanse / Alexander Chee ; Calculated destruction / Porochista Khakpour ; Depression pancakes / Maile Meloy ; Authentic African cooking / Jeffery Renard Allen ; Grief pickles / Kristen Iskandrian ; Spaghetti and books / Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen ; The boudin trail / Natalie Baszile.

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