Always Home (eBook)

A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

Fanny Singer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Orion (Verlag)
978-1-4091-7233-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'A beautifully written celebration of food, home, and above all, family' - Jamie Oliver'So charming and beautiful' - Gwyneth Paltrow'The most delicious kind of memoir' - The Times Stories and recipes from growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colourful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age, and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before. A charming, smart translation of Alice Waters' ideals and attitudes about food for a new generation, Always Home is a loving, often funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely written look at a life defined in so many ways by food, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.'Singer's writing reminds me about everything important to me in life, the four f's: friends, food, family and fun' - Claire Ptak, owner of Violet bakery 'Fanny [is] a seductive wordsmith of deliciousness!' - Sally Clarke, owner of Clarke's Restaurant'Fanny's confident, honest, warm words beautifully read like a foodie fairy tale' - Skye Gyngell, owner of Spring Restaurant'A true delight to read, full of pearls of homely wisdom.' - Lily Cole'A delicious book and deserving of all the praise already heaped on it.' - Bryan Ferry'Joyful, witty and loving...A book like no other, an instant classic.' - Al Hilton, staff writer at The New YorkerFEATURED IN VOGUE'S 'The 5 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2020
• Vorwort: Alice Waters
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4091-7233-3 / 1409172333
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4091-7233-8 / 9781409172338