![]() Jen: Let’s talk about appetites, particularly the appetites we have as women. I had the pleasure of speaking to Kate just before Blue Plate Special’s release, and in that conversation, she very generously provided some of her recipes for food, and also life. ![]() I said the book was beautiful, right? It’s also good with cheese and crackers. To eat passionately is to allow the world in there can be no hiding or sublimation when you’re chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.” And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and minuscule. As Kate writes in her prologue, “to taste fully is to live fully. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Ruth Reichl, and its scope is much greater than what’s on a plate - I laughed and cried, and sometimes I snacked. ![]() As I read Kate’s “autobiography of appetites” - some food-based but others not this is a story of life told through food in the venerable tradition of M.F.K. It’s called Blue Plate Special, after the home-cooked, simple but sustaining meals her mother used to make. ![]() Six-time novelist Kate Christensen has written another beautiful book, and this one’s a memoir, out now from Random House. ![]()
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