Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking and Coping

SWEET SURVIVAL "I grew up eating chocolate mousse with a silver teaspoon." So begins the title essay from this delightful compilation--two parts memoir, one part cookbook from Laura Zinn Fromm. An award-winning journalist and self-described sugar addict, Fromm is funny and frank in this moving account of trying to find comfort in a family fraught with mental illness. Fromm worked for years as a reporter at Business Week, living in Manhattan and barely cooking at all. Craving a kitchen that ...