A review by ktoumajian
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites by Kate Christensen

3.0

I'm still thinking about this book so perhaps I should give it a 3+/4- ... The concept of this book really spoke to me: a memoir of her life interspersed with exceptional and sometimes mundane but important food experiences. Kate is a foodie, loves everything about food from selecting ingredients, preparing it, sharing it and of course eating it with a good bottle of wine--at times in her life food was about comfort and warmth, at other times only about sustenance and isn't that true for us all? And her love affair with food was an interesting read as well as many of the recipes she weaves into her narrative, but in the end it is the memoir of an artist and haven't we all read that before?