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Brandt & Hochman Agency
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Norton (2018-12-04)
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KITCHEN YARNS

Notes on Life, Love, and Food

by Hood, Ann

The great food writer M.F.K. Fisher once said that she didn't write about food, she wrote about love. In this memoir with recipes, Ann Hood writes about family and culture, loss and hope, finding her way around a kitchen and through life.

In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.

From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood's own home. She cooked pork roast to warm her first apartment, used two cups of dried basil for her first attempt at making pesto, taught her children how to make their favorite potatoes, found hope in her daughter's omelet after a divorce, and fell in love again - with both her husband and his foolproof chicken stock.

With her signature humor and tenderness, Hood details all these recipes and more in KITCHEN YARNS, along with tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.

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KITCHEN YARNS is - A Real Simple Best Book of 2018 - BBC Book of the Month Pick - Washington Post Book of the Month Pick - People Magazine Book of the Week

Quote: Brandt

As Nora Ephron did in the wonderful HEARTBURN, Hood retells the chapters of her life through culinary memories, ending each chapter with a recipe... Written in a series of deliciously digestible essays, the wistful and wonderful KITCHEN YARNS is a feast for the heart, mind and senses.

www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/12/03/kitchen-yarns-ann-hood-spins-savory-tales-her-life-through-food-memories-book-review/2091798002/

Review: USA Today

Eminently readable, KITCHEN YARNS, Ann Hood's tender, witty, and funny voyage through a life of food, reminds us that the visceral taste memories of our past are essential benchmarks of our life, and that the stories of a family are always best felt and expressed through those dishes.

Quote: Jacques Pépin, world-renowned chef and author of HEART & SOUL IN THE KITCHEN

She had me at Indiana Fried Chicken, but she might have you at her mother's meatballs or her husband's chicken stock. Hood, whose novels you probably already love, is married to food writer extraordinaire Michael Ruhlman. These tales of ingredients, recipes and meals will lift your spirits.

Review: Washington Post

Moving. Hood's sharp essays emphasize food as emotional nourishment, bringing family and friends together - both to celebrate the joys and heal the wounds of life.

Review: Publishers Weekly

In this cozy read, Hood shares recipes that shaped herfrom her mother Gogo's lemon meringue pie to her second husband's perfect baked potatoand the poignant life lessons about loss, love, and friendship she learned in the kitchen.

Review: Real Simple

Ann Hood is a gifted storyteller... [A] delightful compilation of essays and recipes. Perfect holiday-season fare, but be forewarned: You'll want to keep both kitchen and Kleenex close at hand.

Review: People Magazine