Relish: My Life In The Kitchen (Winner Of Alex Awards)

Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe - many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions. A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a book for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product. Prizes: Winner of Alex Awards 2014. Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2014. Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2015 and Delaware Diamonds Award (High School) 2014.