| Edition |
First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| 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 |
A former "New Yorker" editor chronicles her quest to overcome the convergence of the sudden loss of her brother, being dumped by her fiancé, and being evicted from her apartment by cooking her way across the country while staying with friends and family. |
| Subject |
Nunn, Emily.
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Comfort food.
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Cooking, American.
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Food writers -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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COOKING.
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TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Cookbooks.
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| ISBN |
9781451674200 (hardcover) |
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1451674201 (hardcover) |
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9781451674279 (ebook) |
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