The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to

The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

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In the tradition of Elizabeth Gilbert and Ruth Reichl, former New Yorker editor Emily Nunn chronicles her journey to heal old wounds and find comfort in the face of loss through travel, home-cooked food, and the company of friends and family.

One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved brotherâ€™s sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancÃ© and eviction from the apartment they shared, Emily Nunn had lost all sense of family, home, and financial security. After a few glasses of wine, heartbroken and unmoored, Emilyâ€”an avid cook and professional food writerâ€”poured her heart out on Facebook. The next morning she woke up with an awful hangover and a feeling sheâ€™d made a terrible mistakeâ€”only to discover she had more friends than she knew, many of whom invited her to come visit and cook with them while she put her life back together. Thus began the Comfort Food Tour.

Searching for a way forward, Emily travels the country, cooking and staying with relatives and friends. She also travels back to revisit scenes from her dysfunctional Southern upbringing, dominated by her dramatic, unpredictable mother and her silent, disengaged father. Her wonderfully idiosyncratic aunts and uncles and cousins come to life in these pages, all part of the rich Southern story in which past and present are indistinguishable, food is a source of connection and identity, and a good story is often preferred to a not-so-pleasant truth. But truth, pleasant or not, is what Emily Nunn craves, and with it comes an acceptance of the losses she has endured, and a sense of hope for the future.

In the salty snap of a single Virginia ham biscuit, in the sour tang of Grandmotherâ€™s Lemon Cake, Nunn experiences the healing power of comfort foodâ€”and offers up dozens of recipes for the wonderful meals that saved her life. With the biting humor of David Sedaris and the emotional honesty of Cheryl Strayed, Nunn delivers a moving account of her descent into darkness and her gradual, hard-won return to the living.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781451674200
ReleaseDate 2017-09-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451674200

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781451674200
ReleaseDate	2017-09-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451674200

The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

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