The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

Amazon.com Price: $11.86 (as of 14/10/2019 23:42 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

NPR’s Best Books of 2017
Best Books on Food of 2017, The Guardian
Best Food-Focused Memoirs, Eater
Top 10 Narrative Food & Drink Books, Booklist
20 Best Cookbooks, The Telegraph

In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through go back and forth, home-cooked food, and the company of family and friends.

One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved brother’s sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancé and eviction from the apartment they shared, Emily Nunn had lost all sense of circle of relatives, home, and financial security. After a couple of glasses of wine, heartbroken and unmoored, Emily—an avid cook and professional food creator—poured her heart out on Facebook. The next morning she awoke with an awful hangover and a feeling she’d made a terrible mistake—only to discover she had more friends than she knew, many of whom invited her to come visit and cook with them even as she put her life back together. Thus started the Comfort Food Tour.

Searching for a way forward, Emily travels the country, cooking and staying with relatives and friends. She also travels back to revisit scenes from her dysfunctional Southern upbringing, dominated by her dramatic, unpredictable mother and her silent, disengaged father. Her wonderfully idiosyncratic aunts and uncles and cousins come to life in these pages, all a part of the rich Southern story in which past and present are indistinguishable, food is a source of connection and identity, and a good story is ceaselessly preferred to a not-so-pleasant truth. But truth, pleasant or not, is what Emily Nunn craves, and with it comes an acceptance of the losses she has endured, and a sense of hope for the future.

In the salty snap of a single Virginia ham biscuit, in the sour tang of Grandmother’s Lemon Cake, Nunn experiences the healing power of comfort food—and offers up dozens of recipes for the wonderful meals that saved her life. With the biting humor of David Sedaris and the emotional honesty of Cheryl Strayed, Nunn delivers a moving account of her descent into darkness and her gradual, hard-won return to the living.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Engineering and Transportation » Engineering » Reference » Writing, Research and Publishing Guides » Writing » The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

Recent Products