Relish
My Life in the Kitchen
First Second · Print & ebook · April 2, 2013
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lucy Knisley loves food.
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- Who it’s for
- A funny, thoughtful graphic memoir pairs life’s turning points with the food around them.
- Themes
- Food and cooking, Family food traditions, Food's connection to body and earth
- Pacing
- Reflective
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe—many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions.
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A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a graphic novel for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013
Food, Drawn Close
A funny, thoughtful graphic memoir pairs life’s turning points with the food around them.
Come here for
- Food stories with appetite and reflection
- Illustrated recipes, including family dishes
Expect
- Life lessons told through food and cooking
- A memoir that treats food as connection
Where it sits
| Graphic Biography & Memoir | 76% |
|---|---|
| Food Writing & Memoir | 71% |
| Food World Lives | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women's Lives
- Food World Lives
- Graphic Biography & Memoir
- Authors
- Lucy Knisley
- Publisher
- First Second
- Published
- April 2, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Food and cooking · Family food traditions · Food's connection to body and earth
- Reading lane
- Women's Lives