Food Is Love
"I admit it, I am one of those people who read cookbooks for fun, and I am addicted to shows like “Great British Baking”. There is something so heart-warming and wholesome about the act of doing, or even thinking about, food preparation for the people you care about - to me it really is a “food is love” thing. Enter this lovely book. The best way to describe it is a beautifully illustrated series of conversations, short essays, recipes and musings from the contributors, who represent a broad and inclusive set of women across the food industry. You can read it straight through, or pick up and read a section at a time as you would any coffee table book. I read this book more casually, over the course of several days and found the comments provided touched all the right notes. Many of the stories emphasized the way we all would love to eat - based on the traditional cultural focus of locally sourced or harvested food and fresh herbs and their preparation in season. There’s a lot of content, nicely laid out, and some of the highlights for me included: - What preparing food means to women and how our roles in food preparation within the family are evolving. - How culture is reflected in cooking and how deeply intertwined our memories/emotions from our homelands and our childhoods are to food. - The contributors reflect the ever-growing appreciation for diversity and inclusivity in the cooking industry. I for one am so grateful for all the multi-cultural ingredients, recipes and videos that are out there now, and am looking forward to trying several of the recipes in this book. 4 wonderful stars. A big thank you to NetGalley, the publisher Workman Publishing Company, and the author for an advance review copy of this book. All thoughts presented here are my own."