I write about food and other pressing matters.
My novel, Like Wafers in Honey, tells the story of Stella, a Jewish girl from Tuscany fleeing Fascist brutality. And it follows Edda, a Westchester housewife trying to save a lost treasure—Italian Jewish cuisine. Recipes included. Yotam Ottolenghi calls the book “beautiful … a survival story and a cultural archive … showing how memory, food, and storytelling can resist erasure.”
I’m also the author of the memoir Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum and write the desserts column for Midwest Living. I live in Chicago with my husband and our chocolate Lab.
To schedule a reading, cooking demo, book club appearance — or just to drop me note — use the form below. I look foward to hearing from you.
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