My fat dad
Subtitle: a memoir of food, love, and family, with recipes
By: Dawn Lerman
Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780425272237
Subjects: Cooks; Family; Biography; American Cooking
Description: A coming-of-age memoir of the blogger author's experiences as the daughter of an obese, fad diet-driven father recounts how at her grandmother's side she learned to cook healthy food evincing the traditions of her Jewish heritage. --Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: All it takes is a spoonful of soup; title: My new baby sister; title: A night at Bubbe's; title: Bye-bye, Chicago; title: Taking a bite from the Big Apple; title: Swapping moms; title: The Hampton diet; title: My month at the fat farm; title: The big reveal; title: My holiday wish; title: My mom makes dinner; title: Annie and the eight-month auditioning process; title: Home with my dad; title: Olga's lunch room; title: Dawn's desserts and Sarah's sweets; title: Chocolate love; title: Visiting my sister on tour; title: Studio 54; title: My parents' divorce; title: Epilogue: my dad's cancer.