Spoon Fed

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About Spoon Fed

Publisher Web Link: http://www.riverheadbooks.com/

Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life

From the prominent New York Times food writer, a memoir recounting the tough life lessons she learned from a generation of female cooks-including Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Rachael Ray, and Marcella Hazan. 

Somewhere between the lessons her mother taught her as a child and the ones she is now trying to teach her own daughter, Kim Severson stumbled. She lost sight of what mattered, of who she was and who she wanted to be, and of how she wanted to live her life. It took a series of women cooks to reteach her the life lessons she forgot-and some she had never learned in the first place. Some as small as a spoonful, and others so big they saved her life, the best lessons she found were delivered in the kitchen. 

Told in Severson’s frank, often funny, always perceptive style, Spoon Fed weaves together the stories of eight important cooks with the lessons they taught her-lessons that seemed to come right when she needed them most. We follow Kim's journey from an awkward adolescent to an adult who channeled her passions into failing relationships, alcohol, and professional ambition, almost losing herself in the process. Finally as Severson finds sobriety and starts a family of her own, we see her mature into a strong, successful woman, as we learn alongside her. 

An emotionally rich, multilayered memoir and an inspirational, illuminating series of profiles of the most influential women in the world of food, Spoon Fed is Severson’s story and the story of the women who came before her-and ultimately, a testament to the wisdom that can be found in the kitchen.

Author Information

About Kim Severson

Author Web Link: http://www.kimseverson.com/

Kim Severson has been the Atlanta bureau chief for the The New York Times since November 2010. Before her recent appointment, she was a dining writer for The New York Times for six years. She also spent six years writing about cooking and the culture of food for the San Francisco Chronicle. Before that, she had a seven-year stint as an editor and reporter at The Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. She has also covered crime, education, social services and government for daily newspapers on the West Coast.

She has won several regional and national awards for news and feature writing, including the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for her work on childhood obesity in 2002 and four James Beard awards for food writing.

Her memoir, “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life,” will be published by Riverhead in April 2010. She has also written “The New Alaska Cookbook” and “The Trans Fat Solution: Cooking and Shopping to Eliminate the Deadliest Fat from Your Diet.”

She’s a Midwesterner by birth. And although she’s extremely fond of the West Coast, she is learning to love the South. She plays softball, cooks, reads, watches bad TV and tries to get into nature as much as possible. She lives in Decatur, Georgia with her partner and her young daughter.

Cookbooks by Kim Severson

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Spoon Fed

by Kim Severson

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The New Alaska Cookbook

by Kim Severson, Glenn Denkler

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The Trans Fat Solution

by Kim Severson, Cindy Burke