num_pages: 199
description: What is the secret to finding hope in hard times?When Suzan Coln was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008 she needed to cut her budget way way back and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested Why dont you look in Nanas recipe folder? In the basement Suzan found the tattered treasure full of handwritten and meticulously typed recipes peppered with her grandmother Matildas commentary in the margins. Reading it Suzan realized she had found something more than a collection of recipesshe had found the key to her familys survival through hard times.Suzan began re-creating Matildas sturdy food recipes for baked pork chops and beef stew and Aunt Netties clam chowder made with clams dug up by Suzans grandfather Charlie in Long Island Sound. And she began uncovering the stories of her resilient familys past. Taking inspiration from stylish indomitable Matilda who was the sole support of her family as a teenager during the Great Depression (and who always answered How are you? with Fabulous never better!) and from dashing twice-widowed Charlie Suzan starts to approach her own crisis with a sense of wonder and gratitude. It turns out that the gift to survive and thrive through hard times had been bred in her bones all along.Cherries in Winter is an irresistible gem of a book. It makes you want to cook it makes you want to know your own familys stories and above all it makes you feel rich no matter what.
language: English
title: Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times
publisher: Doubleday