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6
/100
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5/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox
Publisher:
Seagull Books
Date:
January 19, 2020
For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Condé, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. Condé takes us on a literary journey around places she has traveled to in India, Indonesia, and South Africa.
What The Reviewers Say
Adeptly translated.
... a lightheartedly grand and gossipy memoir in meals. The genre might seem insubstantial fare for a writer of Condé’s stature, and she knows it, slyly opening with her publisher’s pearl-clutching refusal to consider the book of recipes she initially proposed.
There is no clear through line connecting the disparate incidents she relates. Instead, the reader is treated to a series of reflections on the role of food in the author’s life, interspersed with observations from her travels.
