5/22/2023 0 Comments Relish by lucy knisley![]() ![]() Her language, like her drawings, is precise and uncluttered: in one of the book’s liveliest sequences, 12-year-old Lucy and a friend wander through a little Mexican town, discovering treats like “sweet corn on a stick, with hot sauce and lime, which turned the corners of our mouths red.” Between chapters, Knisley offers simple, neatly diagrammed recipes (chocolate chip cookies! pesto! sangria!). (“I have since eaten foie gras with great enjoyment and very little guilt,” she notes.) She maps out her emotional associations with her favorite foods - Venetian croissants, sautéed mushrooms, McDonald’s fries and so on - in a breezy clear-line style, lingering over treasured moments, like resting her hand against Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc” during a catering gig. It’s a memoir with only the slightest hints of conflict or struggle, apart from an early scene in which young Lucy is attacked by a flock of geese. ![]() She grew up with a mother who worked for David Bouley and an uncle who ran a gourmet shop the cover of RELISH: My Life in the Kitchen (First Second, paper, $17.99) shows her lifting an olive to her open mouth, her eyes closed in elated anticipation. ![]() Lucy Knisley has eaten well all her life, and everything she tastes is apparently a madeleine for some happy memory. ![]()
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