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"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is
amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week
30, and this is terrifying." When her mother is diagnosed with a
rare form of cancer, Karen Babine-a cook, collector of thrifted
vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and
aunt-can't help but wonder: feed a fever, starve a cold, but what
do we do for cancer? And so she commits herself to preparing her
mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving headfirst into
the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast. In these essays,
Babine ponders the intimate connections between food, family, and
illness. What draws us toward food metaphors to describe disease?
What is the power of language, of naming, in a medical culture
where patients are too often made invisible? How do we seek meaning
where none is to be found-and can we create it from scratch? And
how, Babine asks as she bakes cookies with her small niece and
nephew, does a family create its own food culture across
generations? Generous and bittersweet, All the Wild Hungers is an
affecting chronicle of one family's experience of illness and of a
writer's culinary attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.
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