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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Kim Severson's Spoon Fed was enjoyable. A breezy memoir in nine chapters, each centered on one or another well-known cook, all women, who helped the author with one or another insight in overcoming various personal hangups and getting on to maturity, it falls into the tell-all inspirational category. I've known four of these illustrious women well enough (Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Edna Lewis) to recognize descriptions and dialogue as perfectly accurate: Severson's a good reporter. Bottom line: things are as they are; play the hand you're dealt as well as you can; stay the course; look out for others. So, I'm getting cynical, a couple of books that I expected to love, and been disappointed, and I'm not much of a non-fiction reader as a rule. When I started this book, and got to the "I'm an alcoholic" refrain, I winced. I thought about putting the book aside, and not reading it. I'm just not much of whinging about problems, and making them the main focus of everything in life. This is NOT that book. Severson may well be flawed, and be hyper-aware of her flaws, but her writing, and the story she tells, rises far above that. She is funny, she is wise, she is wry, and she is honest. From the moment of the Hershey Bar cake of her youth, and again with her love of California Dip (Onion soup mix & sour cream), I loved this book. I adore this book. This is the book to get for any woman in your life, because it speaks about how each woman has their own voice, vulnerability, and strength.
Does food provide palliative care for what’s eating Severson? Not really. But I’d be interested to read the sequel in 20 years, when she’s got a lot more to write about.
From the prominent New York Times food writer, a memoir recounting the tough life lessons she learned from a generation of female cooks-including Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Rachael Ray, and Marcella Hazan. Somewhere between the lessons her mother taught her as a child and the ones she is now trying to teach her own daughter, Kim Severson stumbled. She lost sight of what mattered, of who she was and who she wanted to be, and of how she wanted to live her life. It took a series of women cooks to reteach her the life lessons she forgot-and some she had never learned in the first place. Some as small as a spoonful, and others so big they saved her life, the best lessons she found were delivered in the kitchen. Told in Severson's frank, often funny, always perceptive style, Spoon Fed weaves together the stories of eight important cooks with the lessons they taught her-lessons that seemed to come right when she needed them most. We follow Kim's journey from an awkward adolescent to an adult who channeled her passions into failing relationships, alcohol, and professional ambition, almost losing herself in the process. Finally as Severson finds sobriety and starts a family of her own, we see her mature into a strong, successful woman, as we learn alongside her. An emotionally rich, multilayered memoir and an inspirational, illuminating series of profiles of the most influential women in the world of food, Spoon Fed is Severson's story and the story of the women who came before her-and ultimately, a testament to the wisdom that can be found in the kitchen. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Well this is not great literature. The subtitle "How Eight Cooks Saved My Life" is a bit hyperbolic in most cases. Really these are eight cooks who Kim Severson, respects, learned a lot from, and useful literary devices employed by Severson to describe her personal development. And then she shares some of their recipes at the end of each chapter.
Some of the recipes look really good. The writing was not great but it wasn't bad. I won't be looking for Severson's next book but this was mildly entertaining. ( )