Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger
A Memoir
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Narrateur(s):
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Lisa Donovan
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Lisa Donovan
À propos de cet audio
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)
Renowned southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan's memoir of cooking, survival, and the incredible power in reclaiming the stories of women
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.
©2020 Lisa Donovan (P)2020 Penguin AudioCe que les critiques en disent
"Donovan...reveals the struggles and hard-fought lessons that have made her the courageous woman that she is today....[W]ritten in a fierce and visceral style....In a world that all too often credits male chefs for the culinary contributions of women and people of color, [Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger] is a valuable addition to the culinary memoir canon." (Booklist)
"Donovan... chronicles her career as a chef and her unrelenting passion for the culinary arts, but she also digs into her family history, offering keen reflections on the intersections of race and gender and spirited discussions of work, class, and opportunity.... [Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger] is not just a lively story of a talented pastry chef at the top of her game; it’s also a profoundly relatable memoir of the pervasive push back against female success. A fresh voice with a recipe for empowerment." (Kirkus)
"[A] fiesty confessional.... Donovan’s candid, passionate memoir will resonate with anyone who has worked in professional kitchens, and particularly women." (Publishers Weekly)