REVIEW: Cellar Rat by Hannah Selinger April 10, 2025 Hannah Selinger gives voice to the unseen labor and emotional toll that the restaurant industry takes on its workers…. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon August 6, 2024 [Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…” Read the full story →
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch May 12, 2024 The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown. Read the full story →
REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante December 11, 2023 Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei October 8, 2023 A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control. Read the full story →
REVIEW: It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know by Chachi D. Hauser August 10, 2023 The search for personal identity while being part of a famous family is the focus of a lyrical, deeply textured memoir. Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S.L. Wisenberg April 10, 2023 A writer’s writer explores identity and what it means to be a woman in an essay collection that is funny, dark, and heartbreaking. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature by Zibby Owens July 8, 2022 Award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens reflects on the events that shaped her life and the books that supported her on the journey. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Ghosh April 7, 2022 The memoir deftly braids memories of food and a Bengali upbringing with reflections of how cuisine has informed the writer’s sense of identity… Read the full story →