Title:
Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
New York : Black Balloon Publishing, 2019.
Physical Description:
ix, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781936787791
Abstract:
"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"--Amazon.
General Note:
Essays and recipes.
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 Thier ; 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 / Jeffery Renard Allen ; Grief pickles / Kristen Iskandrian ; Spaghetti and books / Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen ; The boudin trail / Natalie Baszile.
Language:
English
