Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love . . . and the Mothers Who Dished It Upfor Them

by Lela Nargi

Collects the tributes of thirteen professional women to their mothers on how their lives were enriched by their mother's and grandmother's culinary efforts, in a volume that conveys the spiritual nature of cooking for one's family and shares such recipes as the Thinking Person's Cheesecake and Day-after Thanksgiving Gumbo. By the author of Knitting Lessons. Original.

Genres: Food

288 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2005

About the author

I’m a writer of books for adults and children living in a leafy corner of Brooklyn, NY with my daughter, my husband and my dog.

Reviews

[Ellen the Herbivore · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sweet, easy book of vivid childhood memories and of trying to make good food memories for one’s children. The editors may have overdone, though -everyone sounds so similar. Or is it because they’re all upper-middle-class women between 40 and 60? Not many recipes I’d make, either.

[Sandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely

[S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this. Each chapter is written by a different woman about her experience growing up with food.