Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
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Roaring Brook Press
Annotation: Humorous memoir in graphic novel format recounts key experiences in the author's life from the perspective of what she was eating at the time.
 
Reviews: 5
Catalog Number: #5364429
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: Graphic Novel Graphic Novel
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Copyright Date: 2013
Edition Date: 2013 Release Date: 04/02/13
Pages: 173 pages
ISBN: 1-596-43623-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-596-43623-7
Dewey: 921
LCCN: 2012285886
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist (Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 CST 2013)

Knisley, daughter of a chef mother and gourmand father, had the kind of upbringing that would make any foodie salivate, and she's happy to share. In this collection of memories studded with recipes, she explores how food shaped her family life, friendships, travel experiences, and early career as a cartoonist. Loosely connected chapters chart a child- and young adulthood surrounded by cooks and bakers, bouncing between Manhattan kitchens and upstate farmhouses, and through art school and the booming culinary scene in Chicago. Knisley's artwork has a classic, Richard Scarry vibe, and her illustrated recipes om a family-special leg of lamb and huevos rancheros to the trick for perfectly sautéed mushrooms e particularly delightful and inventive. Knisley tempers any navel-gazing impulses with humor, humility, and honesty, noting, for example, that even someone who loves fine food can still put away a truckload of McDonald's fries from time to time. Just about everything in this rambling memoir is handled with good cheer, which hints at the positive energy and personal fulfillment Knisley has wrought from her young life in food.

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

-When we eat, we take in more than just sustenance,- writes Knisley (French Milk) in this nostalgic and funny food-centric memoir, and it-s a fitting motto for the book and for anyone who takes even the slightest pleasure in cooking and, more importantly, eating. Having grown up surrounded by delicious food, thanks to her gourmand father and earthy superchef mother, Knisley looks back on her childhood and adolescence through her roving palette and voracious appetite for new tastes and experiences. With each memory Knisley shares, she shows that life, like a good meal, should be savored and that all food-even junk food-is more than -just fuel.- For those uninitiated in the mysterious art of pickling, the nuance of cheese, or making sangria (yes, a couple cocktail recipes appear), Knisley-s candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line cartooning make the book entirely accessible, extinguishing the pretensions that sometimes predominate the culinary world. Like a giant bowl of spaghetti carbonara or tower of huevos rancheros (recipes included), this is a book that teenagers and parents will savor in equal measure. Ages 15-up. Agent: Holly Bemiss, Susan Rabiner Literary Agency. (Apr.) -

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Wilson's High School Catalog
Word Count: 14,066
Reading Level: 6.2
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.2 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 156967 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:7.6 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q60163
Lexile: 970L

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe--many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions. A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a graphic novel for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013


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