I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of food memoirs as their own thing. I’ve read a few, and I have a whole shelf on my Goodreads labeled “food related”, but I just never quite made the connection until Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge included reading one and I had no trouble at all picking a couple to put on my to read list (most were there already). Cannonball Read loves Lucy Knisley, so I decided to start with hers. Because graphic memoirs and novels […]
Sometimes Something Simple Can Comfort The Most
This was a perfect graphic novel for newbies to the genre like me. I read Persepolis a looooong time ago, but this year I’ve been wanting to explore the genre more and this seemed like the perfect follow-up to the wonderful Hyperbole and a Half. I’ve always loved eating and cooking, so this graphic memoir was a perfect fit. Lucy Knisley grew up surrounded by family and friends in the food business (chefs, gourmets, critics, restaurant owners), so delicious food filled her life from the […]
Tasty memories
Relish is this awesome graphic novel + recipe book hybrid by Lucy Knisley. She details her love for food with illustrated stories from her childhood. Her mom is a chef while her dad’s a gourmet foodie. Together, they expose her to culinary delights from birth as she tags along to restaurant kitchens and gatherings of her mom’s food scene pals. Even though her parents divorce, they continue to impart their own culinary wisdom to their daughter.Each chapter ends with a personal recipe from that particular era of her life. Her […]