Cooking, Laughing, and Crying in the Kitchen

Cooking, Laughing, and Crying in the Kitchen
Author: Cookie M.E. Williams
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640792155

This book is the most unusual you will ever read in life. It's about how we should love more, laugh more, and maybe cry less. It's a cookbook with some wonderful recipes for your family. There are two types of recipes in this book. Recipes for the natural man and the spiritual man. The recipes will change us, enhance us, advance us, and help us to see life from a different perspective should we choose to. There are times when we refuse to see and believe what's staring us in the face. This book is about living life to our fullest potential. It's about being able to enjoy the quality of live we deserve without being stressed, depressed, and bound. It's about being able to laugh and cry during the bad times as well as the good times. We have all been hurt, disappointed, or even abused by our family, friends and those we hold in high esteem. When that happens, we must learn to forgive and move on, seek and receive help from professionals sometimes, and those who can help us without judging us. Life may throw us a curve ball, but we must decide what to do with the ball when thrown. This book is about helping us to be better and to do better in the decisions we make and the life we choose to live. We all have fallen short in some way or another. The anecdotes you read will allow us to see ourselves and make an effort or decision to do better. Sometimes, we can read something that can change our lives forever versus someone coming out and telling us our faults and failures. Take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy yourself as you embark upon reading Cooking, Laughing, and Crying in the Kitchen.

My Mother's Kitchen

My Mother's Kitchen
Author: Peter Gethers
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250120659

My Mother's Kitchen is a funny, moving memoir about a son’s discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. The problem is, although he was raised to love food and wine he doesn’t really know how to cook. So he embarks upon an often hilarious and always touching culinary journey that will ultimately allow him to bring his mother’s friends and loved ones to the table one last time. The daughter of a restaurateur—the restaurant was New York’s legendary Ratner’s—Judy Gethers discovered a passion for cooking in her 50s. In time, she became a mentor and friend to several of the most famous chefs in America, including Wolfgang Puck, Nancy Silverton and Jonathan Waxman; she also wrote many cookbooks and taught cooking alongside Julia Child. In her 80s, she was robbed of her ability to cook by a debilitating stroke. But illness has brought her closer than ever to her son: Peter regularly visits her so they can share meals, and he can ask questions about her colorful past, while learning her kitchen secrets. Gradually his ambition becomes manifest: he decides to learn how to cook his mother the meal of her dreams and thereby tell the story of her life to all those who have loved her. With his trademark wit and knowing eye, Peter Gethers has written an unforgettable memoir about how food and family can do much more than feed us—they can nourish our souls.

The Wacky World of Womanhood

The Wacky World of Womanhood
Author: Vicky DeCoster
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-02-20
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1468900455

In The Wacky World of Womanhood, Vicky DeCoster shares her humorous personal essays on childhood crises, dating dilemmas, marriage mishaps, parenthood pitfalls, and mid-life mayhem. Vicky's laugh-out-loud stories are true and heartwarming, and offer an inside look at the wacky world of womanhood.

Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen

Linda McCartney's Family Kitchen
Author: Linda McCartney
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0316497975

Join the McCartney family for a feast of nearly 100 sustainable, plant-based recipes to save the planet and nourish the soul, in this deeply personal cookbook from Paul, Mary, and Stella honoring their late wife and mother, Linda McCartney “I have a passion for peace and believe it starts with compassion to animals." —Linda McCartney Linda McCartney was a trailblazer of meat-free cooking, and she shared with her family the pleasure that eating compassionately could bring. Now Paul, Mary and Stella have reimagined Linda’s best-loved recipes, in a modern collection that fits perfectly with how we want to eat now. Family favorites such as French Toast, Chili non Carne, Sausage Rolls, Shepherd’s Pie, Pulled Jackfruit Burgers and Crunchy Pecan Cookies are just some of the many simple, nourishing and sustainable vegan recipes included in this stylish book. Complete with personal stories and intimate family photos spanning three decades, Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen is not only good for you, but for the planet too.

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Author: Deb Perelman
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307961060

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!

Francesca's Kitchen

Francesca's Kitchen
Author: Peter Pezzelli
Publisher: Kensington
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496705459

No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. With Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers a winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family--even if we don't know it. Where There's Food, There's Family For years, Francesca Campanile was the queen of her home. Standing in her Rhode Island kitchen, Francesca dispensed advice as liberally as she did the garlic, arguing nonstop with her son and two daughters. It was wonderful. But now, her children and their children have moved away. And for the widowed Francesca, no longer having a family around to pester, annoy, guide, love, and, of course, cook for, makes her feel useless. What she needs is another family who needs her, and when she sees Loretta Simmons's ad in the Providence paper for a part-time nanny, she's sure she's found it. All the single mom wants is someone to fill in for a few hours a day. But it's obvious to Francesca that Loretta and her kids need a lot more. Loretta's struggling to make ends meet. Every man she brings home is a disaster. And her kids could definitely use some guidance--and a little lasagna, frankly. It's time for Francesca to work her magic…and the best place to start is the kitchen. Funny and moving, with a heroine to adore, Francesca's Kitchen is a delicious story about sharing love, life, advice, and, above all, food. "Home cooking, good pasta, and traditional family values conquer all in this amusing and touching story." --Publishers Weekly

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart
Author: Michelle Zauner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525657754

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

Thank You America

Thank You America
Author: Ngombe Mayunda
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1635686636

This book is about showing my gratitude to some amazing people. Most of them are Americans for the good they had demonstrated to me, my family, and my original country, the DRC (Congo-Kinshasa) from the year 1884. I wanted them to know that their kind acts will never be forgotten. So from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you to all of them and thank you to America where they came from.

In the Belly of a Laughing God

In the Belly of a Laughing God
Author: Jennifer Andrews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802035671

In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality.