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Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I''d be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South''s most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan struggled to make a living in an industry where male chefs built successful careers on the stories, recipes, and culinary heritage passed down from generations of female cooks and cooks of color. At one of her career peaks, she made the perfect dessert at a celebration for food-world goddess Diana Kennedy. When Kennedy asked why s

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

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    A Paperback / softback by Lisa Donovan

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: 03/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9780525560968, 978-0525560968
      ISBN10: 0525560963
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun 

      Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I''d be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR

      Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South''s most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan struggled to make a living in an industry where male chefs built successful careers on the stories, recipes, and culinary heritage passed down from generations of female cooks and cooks of color. At one of her career peaks, she made the perfect dessert at a celebration for food-world goddess Diana Kennedy. When Kennedy asked why s

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