Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
✍ Scribed by Cora, Cat
- Book ID
- 108943580
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 373 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476766140
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✦ Synopsis
Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef __ Cat Cora's no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.
Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where days were slow and every meal was made from scratch. Her passion for the kitchen started in her home, where fresh feta and Greek olives filled the kitchen. She spent her days internalizing the dishes that would form the cornerstone of her cooking philosophy incorporating her Greek heritage and Southern upbringing--from crispy fried chicken and honey-drenched biscuits to spanakopita. But outside the kitchen, Cat's life was volatile.
In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the...