| Description |
ix, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note(S) |
Each essay is accompanied with a recipe. |
| 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 Thief -- 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 / Jeffrey 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. |
| Subject(S) |
Food -- Literary collections.
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Food habits -- Literary collections.
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Authors, American.
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Comfort food.
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American essays.
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Essays.
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Literature.
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| Added Name(S) |
Garrett, Natalie Eve, editor.
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Rowin, Meryl, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781936787791 (hardcover) |
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