9780525560968-0525560963-Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780525560968
ISBN-10: 0525560963
Edition: Reprint
Author: Lisa Donovan
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780525560968
ISBN-10: 0525560963
Edition: Reprint
Author: Lisa Donovan
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir (ISBN-13: 9780525560968 and ISBN-10: 0525560963), written by authors Lisa Donovan, was published by Penguin Books in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Women (Specific Groups, Culinary Biographies, Cooking Education & Reference, Essays, Celebrities & TV Shows, Cultural & Regional) books. You can easily purchase or rent Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

"Donovan is such a vivid writer--smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny-- that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South's most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan struggled to make a living in an industry where male chefs built successful careers on the stories, recipes, and culinary heritage passed down from generations of female cooks and cooks of color. At one of her career peaks, she made the perfect dessert at a celebration for food-world goddess Diana Kennedy. When Kennedy asked why she had not heard of her, Donovan said she did not know. "I do," Kennedy said, "Stop letting men tell your story."

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HUNGER is Donovan's searing, beautiful, and searching chronicle of reclaiming her own story and the narrative of the women who came before her. Her family's matriarchs found strength and passion through food, and they inspired Donovan's accomplished career. Donovan's love language is hospitality, and she wants to welcome everyone to the table of good food and fairness.

Donovan herself had been told at every juncture that she wasn't enough: she came from a struggling southern family that felt ashamed of its own mixed race heritage and whose elders diminished their women. She survived abuse and assault as a young mother. But Donovan's salvations were food, self-reliance, and the network of women in food who stood by her.

In the school of the late John Egerton, OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HUNGER is an unforgettable Southern journey of class, gender, and race as told at table.

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