My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes

✍ Scribed by Lerman, Dawn

• Book ID: 109126500
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698142862

✦ Synopsis

From the author of the New York Times Well Blog series, My Fat Dad

Every story and every memory from my childhood is attached to food...

Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of freeze-dried, saccharin-laced concoctions, and insisted the family do the same—even though no one else was overweight. Dawn's mother, on the other hand, could barely be bothered to eat a can of tuna over the sink. She was too busy ferrying her other daughter to acting auditions and scolding Dawn for cleaning the house ("Whom are you trying to impress?").

It was chaotic and lonely, but Dawn had someone she could turn to: her grandmother Beauty. Those days spent with Beauty, learning to cook, breathing in the scents of fresh dill or sharing the comfort of a warm pot of chicken soup, made it all...