Cakewalk: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385342985 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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As emphasis, she provides a relevant recipe with each chapter. The foods that have meant most to her fall into the category of American comfort foods, her tastes leaning toward the decidedly simple. From Booklist Novelist Moses recounts her life’s journey, planting its mileposts by the foods that have figured in her personal history. Landing an editorial position at Berkeley’s North Point Press, she encountered writers on the order of Kay Boyle and the estimable M. Fisher, and they helped to broaden and to ground her tastes, both literary and gustatory. F. Traversing the country from California to Pennsylvania as a schoolgirl, she relished what was for her the novelty of McDonald’s but she at the same time was developing a taste for more exotic fare such as fried clams. Her family moved often, and her parents eventually divorced. Moses ref
""You don't have to be who they think you are"" according to wogan. `Cakewalk' contains extraordinary family stories; of Romanov treasure lost, fortunes made and gone, living with a mother who, Moses says is part Mary Poppins, part Sound of Music and part I Love Lucy. In reality Kate's upbringing by both her parents is horrendous and much of the book contains stories of her overcoming the fa. Thoroughly enjoyed this bittersweet memoir Zedzebra I would have gladly read this book from cover to cover in one sitting if I didn't have any other obligations; as it was I kept sneaking over to read it a chapter at a time when I couldn't sit down for a long spell with it. I loved the author's stories from her childhood and teen years, no doubt because it really resonated wi. JBrokaw said Sweet and Deep. Kate Moses is a child of the 70s, with all its inherent consequences. Reading her memoir will strike a familiar chord for many who grew up in the era. Having survived some epically bad parenting by learning to bake and write, Kate has given back the many kindnesses she encountered by sharing her best recipes. Reading her lyr
There is the mysteriously erotic German Chocolate Cake implicated in a birds-and-bees speech when Kate was seven, the gingerbread people her mother baked for Christmas the year Kate officially realized she was fat, the chocolate chip cookies Kate used to curry favor during a hilariously gruesome adolescence, and the brownies she baked for her idol, the legendary M.F.K. Her parents were disastrously mismatched, far too preoccupied with their mutual misery to notice its effects on their kids. From the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy—and crumby—childhood.Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, K
She lives in San Francisco. For more recipes, stories, and baking tips, visit the Cakewalk blog at katemoses. . Hailed as “a new writer of startling, lyrical intensity” by The Times Literary Supplement, Kate Moses received the 2003 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize as well as a Prix des Lectrices de Elle for Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, published in a dozen languages. While a senior editor and contributing writer for Salon, Moses co-founded the popula