![]() She documents how her mother’s work connecting her city contacts with the farmers in her new home changed their small town into a foodie paradise, how she and her best friends discovered new food experiences in Mexico, Japan, and Vienna, and how frustrating it can be to try to replicate the taste of that perfect croissant with the warm, oozing apricot filling. ![]() As sidelights to her autobiographical vignettes, she describes how food culture has changed in New York City and Chicago, places where she was on hand to see how restaurants, gourmet food stores, and farmer’s markets went from being staffed by actors, musicians, and artists whose love for fine food outstripped their budgets to now being taken over by food professionals such as chefs and graduates of culinary arts programs. Her mother is a brilliant cook and her father a discriminating eater, so she focuses on the way sharing meals is central to relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this graphic-novel-styled memoir, cartoonist Lucy Knisley tells twelve stories about her life growing up in and around food culture. ![]()
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