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A memoir wed to the universal story of all mothers and daughters.

“Only now do I realize the degree to which such self-sacrifice and denial were baked into me, as they were baked into my mother, as they are baked into far too many females, at birth.”

Nothing in Julia Child is more telling than Nancy Spiller’s mother’s passed down instructions for a stolid ‘compromise cake’ that turns out, in Spiller’s deft description, to be a recipe for how to endure the hard parts of a woman’s life. Ultimately, this lovely and often bittersweet book reminds us that the food we share, no matter the unhappy provenance of the recipe, can bring us together with the people we never want to forget.
—Signe Wilkinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning