Step aside, Joy of Cooking." -Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home "Lucy Knisley is bringing comics into the kitchen." -USA Today "Knisley's candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line storytelling make the book entirely accessible. New York Times "Lucy Knisley's delightful drawings don't just tell great stories, they're a crystal-clear how-to guide to everything worth doing in the kitchen. Her language, like her drawings, is precise and uncluttered. NPR Between chapters, Knisley offers simple, neatly diagrammed recipes (chocolate chip cookies! pesto! sangria!). Readers who are already food lovers are the obvious audience here, but those even those who aren’t will have plenty to ruminate on through these coming-of-age shorts.Lovingly illustrated and annotated in her bright, cartoony style. A subtle highlight of the book is her advocacy of hands-on work: she gracefully shares the secret delights of being a server and working at a cheese counter, jobs that might not seem glamorous but have undeniable fringe benefits for a food lover.
Recipes of some favorite dishes are included, and everything is illustrated with full-color cartoons that guide readers through a recipe step-by-step, as well as through the various experiences of her life as a bratty daughter of divorce, a city kid displaced to the wilds of country life, a rebellious celebrant of junk food, a frustrated home baker, and a dedicated young server for her mother’s catering business, to name a few. She documents how her mother’s work connecting her city contacts with the farmers in her new home changed their small town into a foodie paradise, how she and her best friends discovered new food experiences in Mexico, Japan, and Vienna, and how frustrating it can be to try to replicate the taste of that perfect croissant with the warm, oozing apricot filling. As sidelights to her autobiographical vignettes, she describes how food culture has changed in New York City and Chicago, places where she was on hand to see how restaurants, gourmet food stores, and farmer’s markets went from being staffed by actors, musicians, and artists whose love for fine food outstripped their budgets to now being taken over by food professionals such as chefs and graduates of culinary arts programs.
Her mother is a brilliant cook and her father a discriminating eater, so she focuses on the way sharing meals is central to relationships. In this graphic-novel-styled memoir, cartoonist Lucy Knisley tells twelve stories about her life growing up in and around food culture.
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