My mother's kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and the Meaning of Life
✍ Scribed by Peter Gethers
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250120659
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✦ Synopsis
A funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love
Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. The problem is, although he was raised to love food and wine he doesn't really know how to cook. So he embarks upon an often hilarious and always touching culinary journey that will ultimately allow him to bring his mother's friends and loved ones to the table one last time.
The daughter of a restaurateur--the restaurant was New York's legendary Ratner's--Judy Gethers discovered a passion for cooking in her 50s. In time, she became a mentor and friend to several of the most famous chefs in America, including Wolfgang Puck, Nancy Silverton and Jonathan Waxman; she also wrote many cookbooks and taught cooking alongside Julia Child. In her 80s, she was robbed of...