Pasta Grannies by Vicky Bennison
These woman represent a life of artistry and culinary truth that have been well overlooked until Bennison saw the need to preserve it. If this incredible gift to the world doesn’t deserve a Pulizter, I don’t know what does.
Tortellini at Midnight by Emiko Davies
When a gifted artist-historian and cook makes it her life’s work to bring such elusive, even non-exportable, cuisine into your kitchen, we must take note. Her obvious care, clarity and love for what I would consider not just recipes but personal memories, traditions and even life lessons that tie all Italians and perhaps the world of food together is palpable and sings out on every page.
Root Stem Leaf Flower/Time by Gill Meller
But each entry speaks to his seeming effortlessness and knowing about how some foods just like certain fascinating friends with them and some foods just like to be alone.
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger by Lisa Donovan
In Donovan’s new memoir, Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, she touches on all aspects of her identity - daughter, friend, personification of work ethic, intellectual, team player, resilient bad ass, confident risk-taker, professional, mother, wife...as well as further exploring the misogyny in the restaurant industry by way of her own experience.