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------------------VIDEO REVIEW------------------If you're interested in seeing me use a couple of these recipes and review the book, you can check out my video review :) 28/11/19Such an emotional and raw collection of stories, showcasing how food can heal and connect us to our past. My video review will be up on my Youtube channel tomorrow.You can find me onYoutube | Instagram | Twitter | Tumblr | Website
That I started reading Eat Joy on the first full day of pandemic lockdown was no coincidence. In those days of raw uncertainty (as opposed to these days of weary uncertainty) what could be more appealing than the idea of a joy so present, so tangible, you could eat it? The contributors to Eat Joy are mostly acclaimed authors (including Carmen Maria Machado, Colum McCann, Nick Flynn, Mira Jacob) and their excellent essays portray sorrow, fear, ambivalence, hopelessness—until, of course, food and
I noticed this review from GR friend Jenny, and since we share a love of books about food and cooking, I knew I had to download this one. She even included the fact that she found this on Hoopla, so that made it easy.It's a book of essays by 31 different authors on comfort food that got them through difficult times in their life, including recipes at the end of each essay. For the most part, the food is simple and the recipes easy, especially the one about a rainy camping trip. Brownie mix and w...
When I was a kid and already an avid reader, some of the most readily available material in the house to keep me entertained was my dad's longtime collection of Reader's Digest magazines. This was before the readership got so old that half the stories came to be about fiber intake and UV rays and rare diseases. But when I was a kid, vintage copies from the 60s and 70s seemed to feature all kinds of zany stories about camping trips, natural phenomenons and exotic locations, instead. Or so I remem...
I found this book very comforting for myself. These are moments of grief or sadness that various writers have experienced with comforts foods which made them feel better. I quite enjoyed reading this book, and I highly recommend it to all!
So maybe I went into this book expecting something different. Eat Joy: Stories and Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Authors is a compilation of shorts stories from various authors about comfort food. I found it to be an interesting concept to talk about how certain foods lock into our memories because they were a form of comfort during difficult times. And although I respected the effort and courage each author portrayed as I’m sure it wasn’t easy writing about moments of weakness and vulnerabili...
EAT JOY is a collection of food centered/adjacent essays written by well known authors where each entry is accompanied by lovely illustrations and a “recipe”. It is not a cookbook. You may pick up one or two ideas along the way but it includes basic recipes for things like white rice and brownie mix (LITERALLY packet brownie mix + water). Once you go into this collection with that in mind, you see what the editor set out to do in this volume and it becomes quite an interesting and offbeat book t...
2.5ish? Which I'm rounding up to 3 because of Colum McCann.This is a book of essays about comfort food (and accompanying recipes). But it feels inconsistent. Some of the essays are beautiful and poignant, others feel like the essays one scrolls through when trying to get to the recipe at the bottom of the page on a food blog. I say this as someone who wrote many essays I'm sure other people scrolled through while reading my ill-conceived, briefly lived, and poorly photographed food blog. Maybe t...
(free review copy) A remarkable collection of food writing from a group of writers I highly respect. Just getting to read their short form writing all in one volume was a treat.
"I just smiled and waved and made some gesture along the lines of: What can you do, these things happen. I couldn't stay depressed and divorced forever, eventually I had to eat some non-comfort food. But I'm really grateful for all the comfort food you made me.I really enjoyed this collection of stories about the idea of comfort food from 31 different writers, and I love that recipes were included. The essays are divided around needing different kinds of comfort, and I really liked that. Definit...