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title: "Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking"
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# Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking

**Brand:** elissa altman
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- **What is this?** Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking by elissa altman
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			        		&#x201C;A brave, generous story about family, food, and finding the way home.&#x201D;&#x2014;Molly Wizenberg, author of A Homemade Life&#x201C;A wild ride with biting highs, withering lows, and tremendous wit and humor...A beautiful story.&#x201D;&#x2014;Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone&#x201C;Sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious, this is one of the finest food memoirs of recent years.&#x201D;&#x2014;The New York Times Book Review&#x201C;Delightful . . . A wealth of food tales about foodies and food phobics, cooks and kitchen disasters, cooking successes and failures&#x2014;all in clear, pleasing prose . . . Poor Man&#x2019;s Feast deserves a place on the shelf with the finest food writers.&#x201D;&#x2014;New York Journal of Books&#x201C;[Altman] artfully merges relationship narrative, personal history, and food memoir in this satisfying book. . . . Luminous writing brings many stories small and large to feed the heart.&#x201D;&#x2014;Publishers Weekly&#x201C;[Told] with her delicious trademark blend of humor, love, and dedication to simplicity in life and, of course, in food.&#x201D;&#x2014;Portland Monthly&#xA0;
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Elissa Altman is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Poor Man&apos;s Feast, and the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. She writes the Washington Post column, Feeding My Mother, and her work has appeared everywhere from Oprah Magazine and&#xA0;Tin House to the New York Times, and has been anthologized for five consecutive years in Best Food Writing. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
						    	
					    	
						
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