Everything is Under Control, Phyllis Grant
Everything is Under Control, Phyllis Grant
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Everything is Under Control
A Memoir with Recipes

Author: Phyllis Grant

Narrator: Phyllis Grant

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Phyllis Grant's Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California, where her children are born. All the while, a sense of longing pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself.

Written with the transparency of a diarist, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant's table—a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood, motherhood, and a life in the kitchen.

About Phyllis Grant

Phyllis Grant is an IACP finalist for Personal Essays/Memoir Writing and a three-time Saveur Blog Awards finalist for her blog, Dash and Bella. She has cooked in world-renowned restaurants, including Nobu, Michael's, and Bouley. Her essays and recipes have been published in a dozen anthologies and cookbooks, including Best Food Writing in both 2015 and 2016. Her writing has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, Saveur, the Huffington Post, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Food52, and Salon. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN*

This is a delightful book that is part memoir, part recipe book. I needed a reprieve from reading anything "heavy" during this time, and this was the lighthearted reverie that I craved. First of all, it's only 256 pages, but when you hit approximately the 60% mark, the biography ends and the recipes......more

Goodreads review by Claire Taylor

I am a fiend for food memoirs and listed this on my Book Lovers Pizza blog as one of my most anticipated foodie memoirs of 2020: [URL not allowed]-food-me... Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review. In the middle of the night, not ab......more

Goodreads review by Rennie

I feel like I would love her personally, especially because I watched some of her cooking videos on Instagram and she opened one drily with “Happy fucking New Year” and then just launched into how you begin this recipe. Let’s be friends! And I love a good diary-like, vignette-y memoir but in a self......more

Goodreads review by Grace

Sometimes a book comes when you need it I received this book as unsolicited book mail and I am so grateful for it. Would I have given this book five stars last Thursday?maybe not. But I didn’t read it last Thursday I read it on a Thursday that gave after some very scary very big things and because o......more

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