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[dark_phoenix54]

Burn the Place: A Memoir, by Iliana Regan. Midway Books, 2019Iliana Regan is the owner of the Michelin Star restaurant “Elizabeth”, named for her sister who died in a jail holding cell. She was exposed to food a lot as a child- they lived on a farm and grew, foraged, baked, and preserved most of their food, but until the point her mother rebelled

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[rhodielady_47]

"I do wish I’d learned some about her process of recipe creation; one of the most compelling things is that even as a small child she had a connection with food- when it was ripe, how to combine it, how to serve it up."

That is something that drives me nuts about some books--they leave out the parts that make someone really worth my time as a human being.
Here you've got someone who can really cook and do a wonderful job of it but other than a vague description of it, they don't tell you anything concrete.

I couldn't care less about reading about someone doing drugs or guzzling alcohol or any of a thousand other ways they abuse themselves.
Why can't the writers be vague about all this mess instead?
:^\

[dark_phoenix54]

I *think* it was kind of a "Hey, I'm really screwed up but I SURVIVED! Wa-hoo!" thing. She managed to pull herself out of her abyss, and is making people happy with her food. So I get that. I just probably wouldn't have asked for the book if I'd known what the majority of the book was like. I wanted to learn about FOOD!

[rhodielady_47]

I hear you on the food.

Makes me wonder when the social pendulum is going to start swinging the other way and starting shining the spotlight on the people who make a conscious effort to keep themselves straight from the get-go.
Don't get me wrong, I'm relieved to hear that she did get her head unscrewed-up, but I wish people didn't dwell so much on the abyss part of her life.
{{{Heaves deep sigh}}}
:^(