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A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining—and back again—in search of her culinary roots. Before Amy Thielen frantically assembled rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City's finest kitchens—for chefs David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten—she grew up in a northern Minnesota town next to the nation's largest French fry factory, the headwaters of the fast food nation, with a mother whose generous cooking pulsed with joy, sorrow, family drama, and an abundance of butter. Inspired by her grandmother's tales of making sausage and jam at the family farm, Thielen moves with her artist husband to the rustic, off-the-grid cabin he built in the woods. There, growing vegetables and standing at the stove three times a day, she develops a food obsession that leads her to the sensory madhouse of New York's...

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Amy Thielen; CloudLibrary
Publisher
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307954916
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, Memoir
Rating
3.87 / 5 (482 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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