Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Already a hotly anticipated debut—about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country’s most coveted dinner reservationWhen Lars Thorvald’s wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine—and a dashing sommelier—he’s left to raise their baby, Eva, on his...
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Already a hotly anticipated debut—about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country’s most coveted dinner reservationWhen Lars Thorvald’s wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine—and a dashing sommelier—he’s left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He’s determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter—starting with
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00XM0JD4E
Publish date: 2015-08-06
Publisher: Quercus
Edition language: English
I fell in love with the cover and the title and the conceit that the book is built around but I half expected to be disappointed, so many books don't live up to their covers and so many clever conceits turn into pedestrian prose, but instead, I was deeply impressed by 'The Kitchens Of The Great Midw...
I wasn't sure I'd like this one after the first couple of chapters. The writing was good but I wasn't sure I cared about any of the characters I was supposed to be connecting with. But then something happened in the third chapter, and I finally understood how the story about one person (Eva) was bei...
The story opens with Lars Thorvald and his virginity due to his long-standing family affair with lutefisk. Finally in his 20s, he falls in love with Cynthia over pesto. Their daughter, Eva, is born in 1989 and Lars immediately starts her on a life-long food journey with pureed shoulder roast, among ...
A foodie centric read with themes of missing/dead mothers everywhere. It had a strong start and a strong end, but the essential content connecting the ends was clumsy and dull.
For the longest time, I kept ignoring this book when looking to fill my reader on Net Galley. I thought it was a cookbook. Then one day, I read the blurb, then the next day I started seeing all the reviews. I thought, I need to check this out. Boy, am I glad that I did. This was such a good story ab...
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