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Dinner for One
How Cooking in Paris Saved Me
Sutanya Dacres
Dacres, who also hosts a podcast of the same title, shares how solo cooking in her Paris kitchen helped her grapple with the dissolution of the marriage that brought her to the city in the first place.
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A Forager’s Memoir
Iliana Regan
Iliana Regan expands on her first memoir, “Burn the Place,” as she expounds on her relationship to foraging, which began in her childhood. Foraging has certainly represented food for Regan, but has also deepened her connection with nature and her own body and gender.
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Finding Freedom
A Cook’s Story : Remaking A Life From Scratch
Erin French
Erin French’s farm-to-table restaurant The Lost Kitchen, located in the tiny town of Freedom, Maine, has quickly become one of the hardest reservations to get in the country. In “Finding Freedom,” French writes unsparingly how her current culinary successes were shaped by the many trials in her life, including becoming a mother at a young age, a toxic marriage, and a history of addiction.
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Savor
A Chef’s Hunger for More
Fatima Ali
At the age of 29, rising star chef Fatima Ali was tragically cut short by cancer. With “Savor,” which was published posthumously, Ali shares how cooking helped to shape every aspect of her life, from the relationship to her mother to her connection to her Pakistani heritage.