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I have never read a memoir that involved having an affair through food. Adrienne Brodeur’s mother studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Worked as a chef in Time-Life’s test kitchens for its Food of the World Series, published cookbooks and wrote a food column for the Boston Globe. Brodeur spent most of her life as an accomplice to her mother’s affair with her father’s best friend. The author later admitted, «  I knew that children who’d been neglected emotionally, as my mother had been by her parents, often formed attachments to objects instead of people ». A valuable necklace became this emotional heirloom, and a symbol of the tug of war between mother and daughter. The book was a bit difficult to believe, especially when the author ended up marrying the son of her parents’ friends, and her husband eventually also became her stepbrother. It was interesting to read that they honeymooned in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia « in a majestic hotel that sat on a bluff with panoramic views of Cape Smokey and the shores of Ingonish Beach ». Could the accommodation be Keltic Lodge, a resort that was created by my uncle’s family?