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Overview
In Licking the Spoon, Walsh tells how, lacking role models in her early life, she turned to cookbook authors real and fictitious (Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart, Mollie Katzen, Daniel Boulud, and more) to learn, unlearn, and redefine her own womanhood. Through the lens of food, Walsh recounts her life’s journey-from unhappy adolescent to straight-identified wife and mother to divorcée in a same-sex relationship—and she throws in some dishy revelations, a-ha moments, take-home tidbits, and mouth-watering recipes for good measure.
A surprising and rambunctiously liberating tale of cooking and eating, loving and being loved, Licking the Spoon is the story of how—accompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guides—one woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life's next meal.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781580053914 |
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Publisher: | Basic Books |
Publication date: | 11/13/2012 |
Pages: | 344 |
Product dimensions: | 5.66(w) x 8.08(h) x 0.94(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Prologue ix
Chapter 1 How Cuba Married Crete 1
Chapter 2 Mastering the Art 17
Chapter 3 Cradle of Flavor 33
Chapter 4 Water and Wine, Divinity and the Divine 43
Chapter 5 Of Frying Pans and Fire 53
Chapter 6 The Freshman Fifteen 73
Chapter 7 The Enchanted Broccoli Forest 83
Chapter 8 Cooking with Pam 95
Chapter 9 Almost Vegetarian 103
Chapter 10 The Way to a Man's Heart 117
Chapter 11 Jack and Coke 129
Chapter 12 Powdered Sugar and Spice 139
Chapter 13 Canned and Green 143
Chapter 14 The Cake Bible 153
Chapter 15 A Will and a Way 161
Chapter 16 Inside the Gingerbread House 167
Chapter 17 Wedding, Bella 177
Chapter 18 Lune de Miel 187
Chapter 19 Bun in the Oven 193
Chapter 20 Baby Food 203
Chapter 21 Wine and Chile 213
Chapter 22 Down the Hatch, Up the Stump 221
Chapter 23 Home Cooking 233
Chapter 24 Soul Food 243
Chapter 25 The New Basics 255
Chapter 26 First Course 261
Chapter 27 A Moveable Feast 269
Chapter 28 Raw 279
Chapter 29 Carryover Cooking 287
Recipes 295
What People are Saying About This
In the spirit of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn and Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking, Candace Walsh uses the story of her passionate relationship to food to frame a powerful and honest account of her life." —Gretchen Rubin, author of the New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project
"Candace Walsh's luscious prose brings this memoir vividly to life. She weaves the comfort of food throughout her brave and ultimately uplifting quest to find her witty wonderful self. And we readers are nourished by coming along on Walsh's journey. Bon appetit." Cheryl Alters Jamison, four-time James Beard Award-winning author of Smoke & Spice, Tasting New Mexico, The Border Cookbook, and The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking & Entertaining
"Funny, moving, and as irresistible as chocolate cake, Candace Walsh's delicious memoir isn't just a coming-of-age of a remarkable woman by way of the kitchen pantry, but a smart, gorgeously written exploration of the foodsand the peoplewho really nourish us." Caroline Leavitt, author of the New York Times bestseller, Pictures of You
"Like Jane Eyre and Heartburn, Licking the Spoon is a book you won't be able to put down and a story you won't soon forget." Theo Pauline Nestor, author of How to Sleep Alone in a King-Sized Bed
"Engaging in its narrative and as satisfying as the recipes for Ropa Vieja and Chicken Fricassee included, this is truly a memoir from the heart." Curve Magazine
"The book's brightest points serve as testaments to personal reinvention and healing...when Walsh writes with pride and joy of the day she brought her shiny, new KitchenAid home and recalls tenderly the comfort found in a simple chicken fricassee, those moments shimmer like oil in a hot pan." Kirkus Reviews