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Cakewalk: A Memoir (2010)

by Kate Moses(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385342985 (ISBN13: 9780385342988)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

The Dial Press

review 1: This memoir details Kate's life from early childhood through her memories of food, particularly sweets, starting with a stolen cake and ending with a literal cakewalk. Her life was not a true cakewalk, with her lawyer father, frequently traveling and moving the family, and her mother with slightly manic tendencies. Kate struggled with fitting in as a child and a teenager, and when she moves on in life, she finally finds her place in the literary world, only to have her world drastically change again with her marriage and the birth of her child. The story weaves in key recipes from her memories, including her grandfather's fudge, cakes, and brownies along with her struggles to reconcile her feelings and her family. The sweet recipes temper the bittersweet and sometimes dark... more moments in her life.
review 2: I read about 1/3 of this and just could not push through the rest. It's a lot more about her family life, which really isn't all that related to food and then there is a recipe at the end of each chapter. I typically love food-related memoirs, but did not get into this one. However, the recipes I did see looked amazing, so I would maybe buy a paperback version of this someday and possibly try reading the rest. less

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