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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 Americas 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 Tsos 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 youve ever felt a deep, emotional connection to a recipe or been comforted by food during a dark time, youll fall in love with these stories." - Martha Stewart Living. "Eat Joy is the most lovely food essay book . . . This is the perfect gift." - Joy Wilson (Joy the Baker) .



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Natalie Eve Garrett

Natalie Eve Garrett is an artist and writer. She's the editor of EAT JOY (Catapult, 2019) , a collection of stories exploring how food can help us cope in dark times, and THE ARTISTS' AND WRITERS' COOKBOOK (pH Books, 2016) . Her next book is THE LONELY STORIES, forthcoming from Catapult in Spring 2022. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, Natalie lives with her husband and two children in a town just outside DC, along the Potomac River. More information can be found at natalieevegarrett.com.



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