A review by nekreader
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

2.0

With this book, I am officially over the essay/cookbook form as reading material, and food as a vehicle for memoir in general, which has now gone about three stages past medium rare. I get it. Just yesterday, in response to another unbelievably snowy day, I made grilled cheese and cream of tomato soup and catapulted right back to childhood and happy memories of sledding and mom, but is cake really the cornerstone to every good relationship? How harmonious are family get togethers when this one is a vegan who lectures everyone else on the morality of eating meat while simultaneously having to defend his protein consumption, while the lactose intolerant and the gluten-free struggle with the mac and cheese or risotto. Sometimes food and feeding people and being fed is just exhausting. That said, the chapters in this book probably work fine as a blog, light and enjoyable, but there's nothing new or profound; it's fine. But if you want to read something in this genre, I'd go for Ellen Kanner's Feeding the Hungry Ghost