Recipes for Disaster: A Memoir
A Food, Memoir, Autobiography book. Rafferty's funny recounting of dinner party triumphs and failures is an engaging and quick...
Starting with the Thanksgiving turkey that never quite finishes cooking, then moving to the polenta that unceremoniously goes runny and the guests that arrive a day early—there is no topic Tess Rafferty fails to encounter, or hilariously recount. Recipes for Disaster is as though Bridget Jones wrote a culinary narrative—the most pristine of intentions slowly disappear, as does the wine along with any hope of a seamless and well-orchestrated dinner party.Told with heart, humor and honesty; this memoir goes beyond culinary catastrophe and heartwarmingly unveils the lengths we go to in order to please our family, friends, and ourselves—and proves that it's not the food that counts, but the memories. Aptly timed for all the Thanksgiving chefs about to enter the holiday gauntlet; or the guests headed to their dinners—this is the perfect book to read and then savor.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 270 pages
- ISBN: 9781250011435 / 0
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Rafferty's funny recounting of dinner party triumphs and failures is an engaging and quick read. It suffers a bit from a lackluster editing/proofreading job though -- the writing was witty, but several sentences needed an editor's touch, and required repeated readings to get the intended meaning. Repeated use of "whip cream" instead... a fairly quick and funny read. also i learned a lot about what i should and should not do if i ever find myself playing the hostess at a dinner party or large holiday gathering. love how she makes cooking seemingly difficult or pretentious meals seem like no big deal and totally doable just so long as there's a cocktail in your hand.... I literally laughed out loud at lines I was too embarrassed to repeat. Not politically correct, but hilarious none-the-less. She makes entertaining seem so attainable.. She's not afraid to share her disasters as well as her triumphs - which left me thinking, well if she can do it - certainly I could!
