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

About this book

Based on the James Beard Award-Winning Blog Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and a food-fanatical father Elissa learned early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining at fine establishments from Le Pavillon to La Grenouille she devoted her life to all things gastronomical. She served rare game birds at elaborate dinner parties in an apartment so tiny that the guests couldnt turn around and bought eight timbale molds while working at Dean & DeLuca just to make her food tall. Then Elissa met and fell in love with Susana frugal small-town Connecticut Yankee with a devotion to simple livingand it changed her relationship with food and the people who taught her about it forever. Told with tender and often hilarious honesty and filled with twenty-six delicious recipes Poor Mans Feast is a tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity demonstrating how all our stories are inextricably bound up with how we feed ourselves and those we love.