NPR's Best Books of 2017 Best Books on Food of 2017, The Guardian
Best Food-Focused Memoirs, Eater Top 10 Narrative Food & Drink
Books, Booklist 20 Best Cookbooks, The Telegraph 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 brother's sudden death, a devastating breakup with
her handsome engineer fiance 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 professional 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. 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.
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