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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Licking the Spoon

Licking the Spoon

Walsh, Candace

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1580053912
ISBN13: 9781580053914
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: Nov 13 2012
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Awards: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.

In Licking the Spoon, Walsh tells how, lacking role models in her early life, she turned to cookbook authors real and fictitious (Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart, Mollie Katzen, Daniel Boulud, and more) to learn, unlearn, and redefine her own womanhood. Through the lens of food, Walsh recounts her life's journey-from unhappy adolescent to straight-identified wife and mother to divorcée in a same-sex relationship--and she throws in some dishy revelations, a-ha moments, take-home tidbits, and mouth-watering recipes for good measure.

A surprising and rambunctiously liberating tale of cooking and eating, loving and being loved, Licking the Spoon is the story of how--accompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guides--one woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life's next meal.

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