Binding: Paperback
Description: One of Esquire's Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020" In epigrammatic nearly poetic diction Grant reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." - - The New York Times Book Review" What a beautiful rich and poetic memoir this is Like the best chefs Phyllis Grant knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth taste poignancy and love." - Elizabeth Gilbert author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes goes and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth sometimes jagged always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard to her experiences in and out of four - star kitchens in New York City to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California where her children are born. All the while a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself. Written with the transparency of a diarist Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried - and - true recipes from Grant's table - a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood motherhood and a life in the kitchen.
Title: Everything Is Under Control A Memoir With Recipes
Author(s): Grant Phyllis
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250787361
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/6/2021
Category: Memoirs