Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408809605 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly In this eloquent tribute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist McAllester (Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam's Iraq) takes a break from global conflict to address a much more intimate struggle, his late mother's descent into mental illness. Using the wise work of British celebrity chef Elizabeth David, his mother's true north in all things culinary, McAllester masters cassoulet, lobster, elaborate omelets, and steak with bordelaise sauce, gaining not only in confidence and ability but in understanding and acceptance. All rights reserved. The process involves McAllester's touching descriptions of
"elegant prose, beautiful and tragic" according to David A. Lawrence. A moving and fascinating book by a gifted journalist, who focuses his investigative talents this time on his own childhood. Years covering the world's most complicated conflict zones apparently gave McAlester great practice at untangling individual tragedy and spinning it into elegant and lucid prose. He does the same thing with his own life-story, reliving painful memories of anger and love for his menta. "A touching memoir - couldn't put it down!" according to LINA. I was very moved by this book. After Matt McAllester's mother dies, he uses her cookbooks to reconnect with the warm, loving woman of his childhood, before she was consumed by mental illness. As he is doing so, he reflects on his own struggles to conceive a child with his new wife. It's an honestly written, multi-layered story that had me turning the pages. The writing was beautiful and sparse. I particul. "A page-turner" according to Louise Harris. Matthew McAllester's memoir is a beautifully written book about coming to terms with the death of his mother while he makes the difficult journey towards being a parent himself. A highly acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Matthew writes sparely but tenderly about a very sad and difficult subject - his mother's mental health issues and alcoholism which exploded into his life at an
On a sunny morning in May 2005, foreign correspondent Matt McAllester's mother, Ann, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, and despite having spent six years reporting on death and devastation from the world's most brutal war zones, he was pole-axed by grief. But as he looked anew at her long-cherished collection of cookbooks, it occurred to him that the best way to find her again might be through something they both treasured: the food she had once lovingly prepared for her family before she was snatched away from them by illness. Pole-axed, and also astonished to be grieving for a w