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Bittersweet: Lessons From My Mother's Kitchen by Matt McAllester (Paperback,...
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- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Genre
- Food & Drink
- Topic
- Memorials, Coping with Illness
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 209g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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. Pole-axed, and also astonished to be grieving for a woman who had been largely absent from his life, lost for two-and-a-half decades in her private world of madness. In the weeks and months that followed, Matt found himself poring over old family photos and letters, searching for the warm, quick-witted and beautiful woman he remembered from his earliest childhood, who had now vanished for the second time. 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. With the help of Elizabeth David, the cookery writer his mother most revered, Matt embarked on a culinary journey, returning from the front lines to cook Ann's much-loved recipes: from cassoulet, to spare ribs, to steak with Bordelaise sauce, to oeufs en cocotte, to strawberry ice cream - the source of one of his happiest memories. And for the first time he had someone to prepare these dishes for: his new wife, with whom he was trying to conceive a child. Bittersweet is McAllester's poignant account of rediscovering his mother's life, coming to terms with her death, and travelling towards a new future as a father. Powerful, affecting and interspersed with mouth-watering recipes, it is a moving testament to the healing power of cooking for those you love.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781408809600
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107726866
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Book Title
Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Food & Drink
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
209g
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United Kingdom
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