5/27/2023 0 Comments Relish my life in the kitchen![]() ![]() ![]() Lucy lived in New York with her parents until they divorced and Lucy and her mother moved to rural upstate New York - quite the shock to city girl Lucy. She remembers other kids bringing cupcakes to school for their birthdays but her mother would turn up with a blow torch to give the creme brulee a perfect crunchy top. Her mother is a chef and her father a foodie from way back and she spent her childhood years in the kitchens of restaurants. Knisley makes no apologies for the fact that she was introduced to really good food from a young age. I think it also helps that rather than focusing on just one place (albeit Paris) for a very short period of only five weeks, this is an exploration of a life long obsession with good food. ![]() Whilst there is still a hint of the precocious Lucy that we met in French Milk, it is much less of an obstacle to enjoyment, or at least it was for me. When Relish became available on my library catalogue I decided to give her another go and boy am I glad that I did. Whilst I didn't really love it, mainly because of the precociousness of 22 year old Lucy, I did like the style of the book. Late last year I read Lucy Knisley's travelogue/graphic novel French Milk. ![]()
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