Goodreads Summary:
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of M. F. K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin will be a large and eager audience.
This memoir derives from Kate's popular foodcentric blog (http://katechristensen.wordpress.com), in which she shares scenes from an unusual upbringing and an unusually happy present-day life, providing an audience for this book that is already primed. That it is written by Kate Christensen means it will be a delicious reading experience in every sense—a compulsively readable account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows and pleasures, many of the latter of the sensual, appetitive variety.
My Thoughts: ****I received this book as an ARC from the publisher, this had no impact on my review****
I know several fellow reviewers didn't connect with this read. That wasn't my experience. I found that I connected with each story on some level, some more than others but each story felt authentic and relate-able to me.
I have often linked my memories to food in the same ways that she has. I remember the breakfasts my Mother made on Saturday mornings and how they were sometimes very love filled and other times they were some of the most tense meals of my life.
I like that Kate included recipes and I have thought about trying some of them. Overall, I enjoyed this read. I don't think it will fit with everyone but I think it definitely has a place with readers like me. I would recommend this to people who view their memories with through food and their own relationship with food.
While writing this review I was listening to CBS This Morning. Oh man that Charlie Rose, I have such a crush on him.
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