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A review by attytheresa
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness by Cat Cora
5.0
Cat Cora's voice is clear as a bell, and her story completely engaging. Food drifts in and around the events of her life, from her adoption into a Greek American to her family life with her sons and wife, always there but not distracting from the events that shaped her path.
Cora tells the difficult stories of abuse in childhood at the hands of a son of a family friend, to her struggle with her sexuality in the deep south, to her struggle against alcoholism in such an uncompromising manner as to be blunt to the point of starkness, ultimately reading as acceptance: Here Cora is, warts, bad ass chef, and all! And she slips us some great glimpses behind the scenes at Iron Chef America. Do they really have no advance knowledge of the secret ingredient? Read and find out!
A Christmas gift from a friend who is also partaking of the 2016 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge, it fits my read in a day category.
Cora tells the difficult stories of abuse in childhood at the hands of a son of a family friend, to her struggle with her sexuality in the deep south, to her struggle against alcoholism in such an uncompromising manner as to be blunt to the point of starkness, ultimately reading as acceptance: Here Cora is, warts, bad ass chef, and all! And she slips us some great glimpses behind the scenes at Iron Chef America. Do they really have no advance knowledge of the secret ingredient? Read and find out!
A Christmas gift from a friend who is also partaking of the 2016 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge, it fits my read in a day category.