'What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is. Phyllis Grant writes of longing, suffering, celebration, family, and food with such delicate power. Like the best chefs, she knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth, taste, poignancy, and love. This is a wonderful book.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 'Grant whips up moments of intense emotion and life with the briefest of words and images. Throughout it all, food is the life source, comfort, energiser and inspiration bursting from the pages a la Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.' Stylist 'Phyllis Grant writes sentences that send jolts through your body. This book is poetry.

This book is truth. In structure and tone it's like nothing I have ever encountered. Every woman should read it and every man should read it, too, because it's about the reality of how we live our lives. I devoured it in a few hours and when I was done, I was crying on the train home.' Jeff Gordinier, author of Hungry 'Phyllis Grant has the voice of a poet and the sensuality of a cook. This very brave book makes you want to experience the world with equal intensity. As for the recipes. completely irresistible.

' Ruth Reichl, author of Garlic and Sapphires and Comfort Me with Apples 'This book is a beautiful paradox - it moves expansively, generously across the decades, in prose as clean and economical as a chef's knife dicing an onion. The result is addictively readable and ultimately wise, true, and real.' Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses 'This book is more than special and unlike any memoir I've ever read--an epic, pulsing poem/diaristic memoir about restaurant work, cooking, motherhood, and more. Skip Netflix one night and read Grant's spare, dark vignettes.' Hunter Lewis, editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine.