![]() ![]() She refined both her palate and her cooking abilities during a year spent in France. In between attending classes at a New York arts high school, Christensen overate, crash dieted, and then wrote about her hunger and her loneliness. ![]() Later, drinking became another source of comfort. In this “wild, strange place that was so profoundly different from Berkeley,” Christensen suddenly became aware of “taste and texture, flavor and smell” and began reading as voraciously as she ate. Not long afterward, her mother divorced and took the author and her sisters to Arizona. This scene reminded her of not only the simple comforts of her mother’s “blue plate special”–style meals, but also of the troubled dynamic that seemed inherent in male-female relationships. Her book begins with the recollection of a violent argument between her parents over an egg-and-toast breakfast. A novelist’s deliciously engrossing exploration of her life through the two major passions that have defined it: food and writing.įor Christensen ( The Astral, 2011, etc.), memory and food are inextricably intertwined. ![]()
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