Summary
An award-winning food blogger describes her chaotic childhood in a Brady Bunch-sized family and a string of ill-fated jobs in her 20s that eventually led to her experimenting in the kitchen as a route to finding a more meaningful life. Full description
- How to toast a Cheerio
- All of them had hair of gold
- A tale of two cities
- Not so terrific
- September
- Giving thanks, sort of
- The Saturday boy
- A major in creative writing with a minor in tortured self-reflection in one's journal
- The wrong, long path
- Parasites in my eyes
- The road to Vons is paved with pavement
- Starting from scratch
- Learning on the job
- Call me Ishmael Mealy
- The squeaky wheel gets the engagement ring?
- Food fight
- Food fight, part II
- The joy of cooking
- Great expectations
- A feast of failure
- Arising out of necessity
- Reconsidering the oyster
- There's no cream in pasta carbonara
- Enjoying the process
- Crêpes are pronounced krehps, and if you make enough of them, you'll get a gâteau
- Embrace yourself, avoid canola oil
- Neither magnificent nor abominable
- Bringing it all back home
- Our many lives
- Be careful when hammering your life into shape
- Figuring it out for yourself
- 2013.