Born Hungry: Stories about sweet love, bitter greens and losing my religion

As a child, Renia Carsillo never fit comfortably in her conservative Southern family. To compensate for her inability (or was it refusal?) to take on a traditional female role, she turned to the most traditional place of all, the kitchen, to nourish the never-sated hunger that ate away at her confidence. This book, told in vignettes of memories and recipes, is the story of how a Southern fundamentalist Christian girl grew into the woman her family always warned her about.

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