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Famished
A Food Memoir with Recipes

ISBN Code : 978-1-941392-14-0
Author : Heather KingAll books
Language : English
Pages number : 172
Format : Paperback
Publication date : 04/17/2018

Price : $24.95

For Heather King, food serves as an emblem of our collective longing for transcendence and communion. Food---ordinary, everyday food---is a sacrament, a mystery, and a source of unending, ever-replenishing joy.

In this highly personal series of essays---each accompanied by a comforting, inspiriting recipe---King shares her story: one of eight kids in a struggling blue-collar New England family; twenty years of hard-core drinking; a turn as a Beverly Hills attorney she quit for the perilous vocation of writing; cancer; divorce; cross-country road trips; unrequited love.

Through the essays pulses her love affair with the city and food of Los Angeles: foraged fruit, farmer's markets, the 99 Cents Only Store produce section, holiday dinners gone terribly awry, then miraculously righted.

Grounded in the notion of the shared meal as the highest form of communion, Famished revels in the discovery that the human condition is not a sickness to be healed but a paradox to be pondered, mystified by, patiently endured, and madly, eternally celebrated.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Our Holy Hunger

Russian black bread

2. Existential Nostalgia

Betty Crocker's brownie pudding

3. My Old Man

Fall slaw with apples and bacon

4. Apprentice

Smoked bluefish pate

5. Dream House

Banana buttermilk pancakes

6. A Good Appetite

Chicken legs with kumquats, prunes and green olives

7. Everyone's So Fat

Zuppa alla canavesana: grilled bread and cabbage soup with crunchy cheese crust

8. My Mercifully Short Life as a Lawyer

Pad thai pesto

9. Notes on a Soup Kitchen

Flageolets gratin

10. Smiles

Chewy chocolate ginger cookies

11. Langer's Pastrami and My Friend Joan

Asparagus glazed with lemon and soy

12. Milvio: Food for a Wake

Jeff Dietrich's bread pudding with whiskey sauce

13. K-Town: Lost and Found

Auberge at ojai's chickpea fritters and frisee

14. Done with the Chart

Coconut flan

15. Rivers and Tides

Romesco sauce

16. Food for the Middle of the Night

Ina's grilled gruyere, red cabbage and apple sandwich

17. Appalachian Summer

Deviled eggs

18. The Traveler Returns

Zankou chicken

19. Goodbye to All That

Pho ga: vietnamese chicken noodle soup

20. Pilgrim Feet

Slow-roasted shoulder of pork

21. Fast, Pray, Love

Bulgur and lentil pilaf with caramelized onions

22. Reality Food

Red and golden beets with blood oranges, endive and walnuts

23. The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes: On Being a Host

Tapenade

24. Hard Times/Good Times

Chez panisse sauteed greens

25. The Prodigal Daughter and the Banquet Table

Quinoa salad with grilled scallions, favas and dates

26. The Driveway Garden: On Being a Guest

Peach kuchen

27. Feeding the Birds: The LA River

Rosemary corncakes

Famished is a literary and food-flecked journey through an imperfect life begun in a working-class but pancake-stacked childhood in New England. Through experiencing alcoholism's depths to her delight in faith and Asian groceries found by walking the streets of Los Angeles, King is a clear-eyed optimist.---April Fulton, founding editor of NPR's food blog, The Salt

Heather King is a memoirist and essayist with several books, among them Parched; Redeemed; Shirt of Flame; Poor Baby; Stumble; Stripped; and Loaded: Money and the Spirituality of Enough. She lives in Los Angeles, speaks nationwide, appears monthly in Magnificat, and writes a weekly arts and culture column for Angelus, the archdiocesan newspaper of LA For more info and her blog, visit Heather King: Mystery, Smarts, Laughs (heather-king.com).

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