Bittersweet
Subtitle: lessons from my mother's kitchen
By: by Matt McAllester
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781408800942
Subjects: Mentally ill parents; Mothers and sons; Death; Families; Family; Mothers; Cooking; Grief; Psychological aspects
Description: "Matt McAllester's mother, Ann, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, and despite having spent six years reporting on death and devastation from the world's most brutal war zones, he was pole-axed by grief. Pole-axed, and also astonished to be grieving for a woman who had been largely absent from his life, lost for two-and-a-half decades in her private world of madness. In the weeks and months that followed, Matt found himself poring over old family photos and letters, searching for the warm, quick-witted and beautiful woman he remembered from his earliest childhood, who had now vanished for the second time. But as he looked anew at her long-cherished collection of cookbooks, it occurred to him that the best way to find her again might be through something they both treasured: the food she had once lovingly prepared for her family before she was snatched away from them by illness."--Jacket.