LET US EAT CAKE: Memories of Food and Friendship
Sharon Boorstin, . . HarperCollins/ ReganBooks, $24.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-06-001283-0
Noted food writer Boorstin was cleaning out her desk one day when she came across a notebook of recipes she'd collected as a newlywed in the late 1960s. Each recipe brought back memories of the women who'd shared it with her and the friendships that resulted. Boorstin threads these recipes—for dishes such as Mireille's Halibut in Champagne and Ina's Brownies—through her memoir, tracing the evolution of her friendships with women through the years, from her 1950s suburban Seattle childhood (the "Age of Innocence and Frozen Marshmallows") to the days of "women's lib" and the psychotherapy-saturated '70s, when Boorstin marries, has a daughter and begins documenting the California restaurant revolution for magazines such as
Reviewed on: 03/25/2002
Genre: Nonfiction