The comfort food diaries : my quest for the perfect dish to mend a broken heart
(Large Print - Hardback)

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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
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Large print edition.
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549 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print - Hardback
Edition
Large print edition.
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English

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Includes recipe index.
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One life-changing night, reeling from her beloved brother's sudden death, a devastating breakup with her handsome engineer fiancé and eviction from the apartment they shared, Emily Nunn had lost all sense of family, home, and financial security. After a few glasses of wine, heartbroken and unmoored, Emily -- an avid cook and professional food writer -- poured her heart out on Facebook. The next morning she woke up with an awful hangover and a feeling she'd made a terrible mistake, only to discover she had more friends than she knew, many of whom invited her to come visit and cook with them while she put her life back together. Thus began the Comfort Food Tour. Searching for a way forward, Emily travels the country, cooking and staying with relatives and friends. She also travels back to revisit scenes from her dysfunctional Southern upbringing, dominated by her dramatic, unpredictable mother and her silent, disengaged father. Her wonderfully idiosyncratic aunts and uncles and cousins come to life in these pages, all part of the rich Southern story in which past and present are indistinguishable, food is a source of connection and identity, and a good story is often preferred to a not-so-pleasant truth. But truth, pleasant or not, is what Emily Nunn craves, and with it comes an acceptance of the losses she has endured, and a sense of hope for the future. In the salty snap of a single Virginia ham biscuit, in the sour tang of Grandmother's Lemon Cake, Nunn experiences the healing power of comfort food and offers up dozens of recipes for the wonderful meals that saved her life.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nunn, E. (2017). The comfort food diaries: my quest for the perfect dish to mend a broken heart (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nunn, Emily. 2017. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart. Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nunn, Emily. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Nunn, Emily. The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart Large print edition., Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.

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