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Nunn, Emily.
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Nunn, Emily.
Comfort food.
Cooking, American.
Women food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Nunn, Emily.
Nunn, Emily.
Comfort food.
Cooking, American.
Women food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
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The comfort food diaries : my quest for the perfect dish to mend a broken heart / Emily Nunn.
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Nunn, Emily.
Atria Books, 2017.
Call #:
641
.5092
N972c
Subjects
Nunn, Emily.
Comfort food.
Cooking, American.
Women food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Food writers -- United States -- Biography.
Women periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781451674200 (hc.)
Edition:
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description:
viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes recipes.
Contents:
Cherries jubilee and other dangerous dishes -- Ezra pound cake -- The grapefruit diet for non-dieters -- Finding the comfort in comfort food -- The peanut, pickle, country ham cure -- Great-grandmother's mean lemon cake -- The idea of family -- Belly of the beast -- Deliverance -- Ringing belles -- Wyler -- Dot -- The stuffed pantry -- If once you have slept on an island -- Bring out your dead -- City of mixed emotions -- Hot wheels and pinto beans -- In search of new recipes.
Summary:
"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 brother's sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancé 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, Emily - an avid cook and food writer - poured her heart out on Facebook. The next morning she woke up with an awful hangover and a feeling she'd made a terrible mistake - 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 Grandmother's Lemon Cake, Nunn experiences the healing power of comfort food - and offers up dozens of recipes for the wonderful meals that saved her life. Nunn delivers a moving account of her descent into darkness and her gradual, hard-won return to the living"--Provided by publisher.
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