Written with the good cheer and great charm of Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl, an aspiring chef’s moving account of finding her way—in the kitchen and beyond—in the wake of a devastating accident
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- Ecco
- Carton Qty: 28
- Selling Territory: W
- 20,000
- Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, Translation, Dramatic: Irene Skolnick Literary Agency; UK, Audio: Ecco
- On Sale: 6/21/2011
- Memoir
- Tr 9780061915314 $24.99 ($24.99)
- 320 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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Season to Taste
Molly Birnbaum
- E-Book
- 9780062081506
- 6/21/2011
- $11.99
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"After reading Birnbaum's smart, lovely book, readers will be reminded to savor their next meal, each fragrant bite."
- Boston Globe
"[Birnbaum has an] insatiable curiosity, convivial voice and talent for unpacking the significance of smell."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Rich and insightful. . . . A veritable feast for the reader."
- Charlotte Observer
"Moving and informative."
- Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating and vivid. . . . Packed with information and a great read to boot. I was smitten."
- Library Journal
"A culinary-minded journalist . . . movingly depicts the nearly ineffable plight of the anosmic . . . alongside passages of sweeping journalistic discovery of all things olfactory. A brave, unflagging memoir."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Evocative."
- Daily Beast
"I had a hunch that Molly Birnbaum could tell a rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story, but what I didn't know is that I would learn so much from it - about strength, about persistence, about the resilience of the human body and mind. This is a book I won't soon forget."
- Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life
"Molly Birnbaum's fascinating book takes her--and us--deep inside the mysterious world of scent. Her writing about this unseen force is fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."
- Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Poser
"When Molly Birnbaum lost her sense of smell in a brutal accident, it was a tragedy for her plans to become a chef, and yet it was a strange kind of gift, too. Deprived of one sense, Molly drew on all others, and on her memories of aroma, to become a masterful and moving writer. And we, her readers, are the ultimate beneficiaries of her great heart and her vast talent. Season to Taste is a memoir, an inquiry, a rumination, and a love story, too, delivered with a poet's touch and a scholar's restless intellect."
- Samuel G. Freedman, author of Letters to a Young Journalist
"Imagine discovering the scent of cucumber, skunk, and even your own brain. Season to Taste reminds us how much our sense of smell grounds us, is part of our identity and, without it, we are bereft of our most profound memories and desires. Molly Birnbaum's fascinating journey, told with charm and compassion, is ultimately a story of triumph. A book for food lovers, sensualists, and all of us in search of our true heart's desire."
- Kim Sunée, bestselling author of Trail of Crumbs
"Season to Taste would be a lovely food memoir, if it were only that. It would be a fascinating book about the sense of smell, and about a loss that might have undone someone less brave, curious, and persistent than Molly Birnbaum. But it's also something more: it's a book about life's unexpected turns, about love and its complexities, and about the ineffably mysterious human brain. I couldn't stop telling people about it, while I was reading it. It will make you see your nose, your life, and your most important decisions in a whole new way."
- Maile Meloy, bestselling author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It