A review by readerrobin
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg

4.0

So if I am being honest, Delancey did not quite move me in the ways that Molly Wizenberg's first book, "A Homemade Life," knocked loose some very poignant memories of family and food. Of how in some families, those two words are forever entwined without a beginning or an end. Delancey is food writing at its best: part memoir and part cookbook, and it chronicles the research, development, opening, and quick success of Molly and Brandon's hip and classy pizzeria in Seattle. But it is really about Molly's journey deeper in to her marriage and her understanding of what "for worse" and "for poorer" can mean in practice. Molly learns what it means to let your spouse grow and change. As far as I know, Brandon and Molly have never separated and are still together, running Delancey as well as a bar next door and raising their first child. That said, her sweet conclusion brings to mind an old proverb that if you love something you should let it go, and if it comes back to you, it is yours forever. Brandon and Molly keep finding their way back to each other, loving and being loved, and I wish them every success and happiness.