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COOKING AS FAST AS I CAN
By: Cat Cora
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Scribner
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
226 pages
ISBN: 1476766142
EAN: 9781476766140
Kindle: B00P42X45M
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef Cat Coraβs no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.
Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where days were slow and every meal was made from scratch. Her passion for the kitchen started in her home, where she spent her days internalizing the dishes that would form the cornerstone of her cooking philosophy incorporating her Greek heritage and Southern upbringingβfrom crispy fried chicken and honey-drenched biscuits to spanakopita. But outside the kitchen, Catβs life was volatile.
In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the kitchen and went on to attend the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and apprentice under Michelin star chefs in France. After her big break as a co-host on the Food Networkβs Melting Pot, Cat broke barriers by becoming the first-ever female Iron Chef.
Cooking as Fast as I Can chronicles the difficulties and triumphs Cora experienced on the path to becoming a chef. She writes movingly about how she found courage and redemption in the dark truths of her past and about how she found solace in the kitchen and work, how her passion for cooking helped her to overcome hardships and ultimately find happiness at home and became a wife and a mother to four boys. Above all, this is an utterly engrossing story about the grit and grace it takes to achieve your dreams.
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