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From Barnes & NobleNovelist Kate Christensen (The Epicure's Lament; The Astral) claims that the one thing that she can still do when her brain is in sleep mode is cook. In fact, she even has dreams about cooking: "One might, I made linguine, over and over, all night long....I must have made enough fresh buckwheat linguine to feed the homeless population of Portland, Maine." She describes herself as "a cook of the improvisational, what's-in-the-cupboard school, which is also, possibly not coincidentally, my strategy with writing." In Blue Plate Special, she reflects on her life's strange salad of spices, oil, and produce. A pleasant concoction; now in trade paperback and NOOK Book. Library JournalPEN/Faulkner Award winner Christensen doesn't just write fiction (e.
About the Author
Kate Christensen is the author of seven novels, most recently The Last Cruise. Her fourth novel, The Great Man, won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also published two food-centric memoirs, Blue Plate Special and How to Cook a Moose, which won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Her essays, reviews, and short pieces have appeared in a wide variety of publications and anthologies. She lives with her husband and their dog, Angus, in Portland, Maine.
