num_pages: 328
description: A memoir about our longing for home about the many forms that home can take and about the role of food in our having it.Engaging delightful and resonant with honesty well-drawn characters and plenty of insight. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review (Outstanding in its genre.)This is a baby-boomer's dream: a book full of anecdotes about coming of age during the sexual revolution of the sixties -- with recipes! . . . an ingeniously conceived tightly written and beautifully packaged memoir a vibrant portrait of the American feminine cultural experience from the 1950s forward. Independent PublishersStarred review in Publisher's Weekly Select 2013London Book Festival: First Place Autobiography 2013Independent Publishers: Bronze Memoir 2013. Hollywood Book Festival: Honorable Mention Autobiography2013.Reader's Favorite: Finalist Autobiography 2013.Southern California Book Festival: Honorable Mention 2013National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist May 2014ForeWord Book of the Year Awards: Silver Women's Studies June 2014San Francisco Book Festival: Honorable Mention May 2014Independent Reader Approved June 2014New York Book Festival: Honorable Mention June 2014
language: English
title: Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen
publisher: She Writes Press