{"product_id":"licking-the-spoon-9781580053914","title":"Licking the Spoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLicking the Spoon\u003c\/i\u003e, Walsh tells how, lacking role models in her early life, she turned to cookbook authors real and fictitious (Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart, Mollie Katzen, Daniel Boulud, and more) to learn, unlearn, and redefine her own womanhood. Through the lens of food, Walsh recounts her life's journey-from unhappy adolescent to straight-identified wife and mother to divorcée in a same-sex relationship--and she throws in some dishy revelations, a-ha moments, take-home tidbits, and mouth-watering recipes for good measure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA surprising and rambunctiously liberating tale of cooking and eating, loving and being loved, \u003ci\u003eLicking the Spoon\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how--accompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guides--one woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life's next meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandace Walsh\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a freelance writer for almost fifteen years. She has written for many publications, including \u003cem\u003eBlender, New York Magazine, Mademoiselle, Newsday, Sunset, Travel \u0026amp; Leisure, Mothering, German Vogue, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFood \u0026amp; Wine.\u003c\/em\u003e She is also the managing editor of the website My Healing Kitchen, a co-founder of \u003cem\u003eMamalicious\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and the editor of two Seal Press anthologies: \u003cem\u003eDear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsk Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50357102117138,"sku":"9781580053914","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61362dab-7971-4f65-a3b1-c650735dba9a.jpg?v=1728317270","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/licking-the-spoon-9781580053914","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}