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Author O'Brien, Christine Scherick, author.

Title Crave : a memoir of food and longing / Christine O'Brien.

Publication Info. St. Martin's Press : New York, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY O'BRIEN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.8743 OBR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.874 OBR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B O'BRIEN, C.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B O'BRIEN CHRISTINE O    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG O'BRIEN, CHRISTINE SCHERICK    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive father, a beautiful, but damaged, mother and three brothers in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building. Christine's father was Ed Scherick, the ABC television executive and film producer who created ABC's Wide World of Sports as well as classic films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Heartbreak Kid. Her mother, Carol, was raised on a farm in Missouri. With chestnut hair and the all-American good looks that won her the title of Miss Missouri and a finalist place in The Miss America Contest she looked to be the perfect wife and mother. But, Carol had a craving that was almost impossible to fill. Seriously injured in a farming accident when she was a girl, she craved health even though doctors told her that she was perfectly fine. Setting out on a journey through the quacks of the East Coast, she began seeing a doctor who prescribed "The Program" as a way to health for her and her family. At first she ate nothing but raw liver and drank shakes made with fresh yeast. Then it was blended salads, the forerunner of the smoothie. And that was all she let her family eat. This well-meant tyranny of the dinner table led Christine to her own cravings for family, for food and for the words to tell the story of her hunger. Crave is that story--the chronicle of a writer's painful and ultimately satisfying awakening."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Romann, Carol Ruth.
O'Brien, Christine Scherick -- Family.
Scherick, Edgar J. -- Family.
Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.)
Scherick, Edgar J. (OCoLC)fst00204201
Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.) (OCoLC)fst01921924
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Natural foods -- United States.
Adult children of divorced parents -- United States -- Biography.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
New York Metropolitan Area -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
California -- Social life and customs.
Adult children of divorced parents. (OCoLC)fst00797256
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Natural foods. (OCoLC)fst01034032
Television producers and directors. (OCoLC)fst01147019
New York (State) -- New York Metropolitan Area. (OCoLC)fst01241982
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Title Memoir of food and longing
ISBN 9781250128836 (hardcover)
1250128838 (hardcover)
9781250128850 (ebook)
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