num_pages: 270
description: Chef author and television Food Network personality Simmons recounts her life. Toronto-born before becoming a dedicated New Yorker. As a child on family visits to South Africa she developed a great love of the food. She also spent time in Spain and on an Israeli kibbutz.. Returning to North America Simmons enrolled in culinary school and became a chef. Her love for writing led to a career in food journalism and she became an editor at a food magazine. The author also writes of the devastation wrought by her elder brother's mental illness.
language: English
title: Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater
publisher: Hachette Books