A Homemade Life

author
Molly Wizenburg

plot synopsis in 50 words or fewer
A Homemade Life is a food-book less about food and more about the context in which that food is prepared. Wizenburg's prose is every bit as delicious as the recipies she includes (fifty, in all), and the narrative--her life story--is served up one meal at a time.

what really matters
This book could have been trite and overwrought, like so many other memoirs, but it isn't. Wizenburg keeps her emotions in check and her prose pulled back even while writing about such potentially treacherous subjects as her first love, her father's bout with cancer, and her Parisian travels. You love this books, whether you want to or not, so gear up.

other interesting things this author has done
Created the food blog, Orangette, out of which this book was born.

other people who liked this book (or at least say they did)
Whomever at The Times of London called Orangette "the world's top food blog."