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And how about the times she and her girlfriends baked chocolate-chip cookies or, later, prepared elaborate dinners to impress potential husbands?One day when looking through an old desk she'd bought as a newlywed thirty years earlier, food writer and restaurant critic Sharon Boorstin discovered a notebook of recipes she'd collected from her mother, relatives, and girlfriends

• Title : Let Us Eat Cake: Adventures in Food and Friendship
• Author : Sharon Boorstin
• Rating : 4.76 (250 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-7-13
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 336 Pages
• Asin : 0060012846
• Language : English

And how about the times she and her girlfriends baked chocolate-chip cookies or, later, prepared elaborate dinners to impress potential husbands?One day when looking through an old desk she'd bought as a newlywed thirty years earlier, food writer and restaurant critic Sharon Boorstin discovered a notebook of recipes she'd collected from her mother, relatives, and girlfriends at the time. Let Us Eat Cake celebrates these connections. As a young girl, Boorstin helped her mother make tuna casseroles; on a college trip to Europe, she and her girlfriends compared men and restaurants with equal zest; after she became a food writer, Boorstin bonded with women in the food world including Barbara Lazaroff (Mrs. It inspired her to reconnect with the recipe givers -- some of whom she hadn't seen in years -- and to explore the power of cooking and food in establishing bonds among women. Wolfgang) Puck, the Too Hot Tamales, and Julia Child. Every woman has poignant food memories: the times she licked the bowl when her mother baked a cake, or helped her grandmother make blintzes, tortillas, or Southern fried chicken. Today, after decades of enjoying food and cooking together, Boorstin and the women in her life have come to understand what truly makes for female friendships.With dozens of delicious recipes and vintage photos, this moving

Boorstin's work and friendships as a food writer have given her some names to drop and recipes to boot: Wolfgang Puck's matzo, Julia Child boiling lobsters in a laundry tub, Nell Newman offering papa Paul's angel food cake recipe. Her memories, even more than her recipes, will charm readers in food writer Sharon Boorstin's delicious memoir, Let Us Eat Cake. Readers join her to feast at her parents' dinner table (Dad's fresh salmon loaf, Grandma's cheese blintzes), order the signature "Canlis" salad at Seattle's special birthday-dinner restaurant, cook a college friend's Tandoori chicken, and decorate cakes with her daughter, Julia. Her vivid portraits will remind readers of their own fond memories of food and friendship. --Barbara Mackoff. But Boorstin

The ending is very satisfying but with so much left unsaid, it leaves the reader with the hope that this story is far from over. I received this book via the Amazon Vine program. To add insult to injury, this is an astonishingly boring travelogue that jumps around a lot and attempts to involve us in a narrative that is only connected by a gossamer thread to anything related to the book's title.. It's the no-frills, pre-published edition complete with typos and inexpensive binding. Additionally, clicking on the sample of the book allows you to read the ONLY part of the book that's actually about indigo: the prologue.The correct description is on the Publisher's Weekly summation: "In this memoir of longing, community, and personal maturation, McKinley half African-American by birth, adopted and raised by white parents who were plant devotees, seeks her roots"I suspect that those who prefer literary memoir and consider non-fiction to be dry will find this an unexpected treasure. It is simply a color, then a livelihood, then a political tool, then an art medium, then a link to the rapidly vanishing African past, then a euphemism for life, death, and everything in-between. And the clothes! As someone who's wardrobe consists of black, white, and brownI found the sheer variety,

Sharon Boorstin was the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and her articles have appeared in Bon Appetit, the Los Angeles Times, Playboy, More, Food Arts, Conde Nast Traveller (U.K), and Porthole. She and her husband have two children and live in Beverly Hills, California.