Where there´s smoke there´s dinner

Sobre el libro Where there´s smoke there´s dinner de Jennifer Hayden publicado por Top Shelf al 2025:

Bursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir and anti-cookbook blends comics with satirical recipes to explore the intersections of food, femininity, frustration, and family.Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. Shes not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us...she does it anyway.Why is that? Where did these expectations come from? What happens if you dont live up to the ideal of the perfect wifemotherchef? And would someone please open a window before the fire department comes?Where Theres Smoke, Theres Dinner: The Last Cookbook Youll Never Need is an accidental memoir from a woman whose comics earn rave reviews around the world but whose meals earn shrugs around the dinner table.Marinating in an unconventional and aromatic blend of formats, Hayden traces the nuances of her complicated relationship to food. Anecdotal comics alternate with wryly ironic recipes, peppered with oven fires, explosions, prayers, and incantations. Along the way, all the salty judgments and bitter frustrations just might caramelize into some real wisdom and self-acceptance. In any case, its all hand-painted in mouth-watering color as a tribute to Haydens love of cookbooks...or at least the illustrations inside them.