Not sure where I heard about this one - I thought it was on here, but don't see any posts about it 🤷♀️. Anyway, it's a good lunch/break choice. Relatively entertaining, easy to dip and out of, not so compelling that I have to tote it around to keep reading.
There's a little bit of Coastal-Media-Type-Road-Trips-to-Find-the-Real-America 🙄, but not the worst offender I've ever come across. And it's balanced with lots of pie recipes!
This book had a great sense of place. It also had some deliciously descriptive sensations regarding the taste & scents associated with cooking & eating. You can tell the writer is a chef & food writer! She‘s also a good storyteller. ❤️💙❤️
I loved the inclusion of a mystery surrounding artwork of a real painter & important muse/ art subject of Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Alfred Stevens, Toulouse-Lautrec & others.
I hope to read her backlist.
so-soListened again to this and got lost in the same spot. He starts talking about vanilla and it morphs into talking about ice cream and how it relates to vanilla, but also then Thomas Jefferson‘s 12 steps to make ice cream. I could have done without a list of every meat dish served at a medieval king‘s coronation or a list of several flavors of Oreo.
3⭐️ if you have a passing interest in food trivia or history. More food trivia.
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I actually finished this one today, but I listened while working and got distracted and missed things. It was interesting. I love my food history. I‘m going to listen to it again tomorrow so hopefully I can absorb more of the information.
pickBeautiful writing about food and life.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.
so-soThis was fine. It just wasn‘t really the cute mystery I was hoping for. I was a bit bored. It is short and the cover is adorable. 3⭐️
pickA good compilation of solid advice, most of which I knew, but also a look inside the pressures put on us by Big Food. I was a little surprised that she didn‘t suggest buying directly from farmers, which is how I deal with it. But it‘s aimed at a larger audience I suppose that may not have access to farmers markets and CSAs.
panWasn‘t a fan of this. My least favorite part of watching/reading Bourdain‘s works are his opinions about America‘s food culture. In his graphic novel, a corporate chef and a locavore chef battle for control of the upscale dining market. But Jiro, an edo-style sushi chef, and other upholders of food traditions battle back for control of America‘s stomachs. I also never appreciate his fat shaming. That really kills me about him. #hoopla
pickOne of my new favorite books! I found this book touching and beautiful, but I can see where maybe some of the translation didn‘t catch the nuance for people who aren‘t Japanese/very familiar with Japanese culture.
A retired detective runs a restaurant with his daughter. They also run a special agency that will recreate a meal based on people‘s memories.
5/5 read this for lovely descriptions of food and the power it has to change people.
Love the subplot involving the model/ muse for Manet & many other artists.
Victorine Meurent was an artist herself, but her paintings are lost. Another example of women being erased in history.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz9k68IRjSf/?igsh=dDRhdjdzYjFuemJt
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9802721/Manets-forgotten-muse-V...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Victorine-Louise%20Meurent&client=safari
