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Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity

by Candace Walsh

Seal. 2012. 321p. ISBN 9781580053914. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781580054713.

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Food writer Walsh mixes memoir with recipes and blends in the history of her matriarchal family. She leaves no stone unturned in her descriptions of her life with abusive men and the birth of her daughter, all while yearning to meet the right woman.

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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