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When Amelia Morris saw a towering, beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appétit and took the recipe home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it resulted in a terrible (but tasty) mess that had to be served in an oversize bowl. It was also a revelation. Both delicious and damaged, it seemed a physical metaphor for the many curious and unexpected situations she's found herself in throughout her life, from her brief career as a six-year-old wrestler to her Brady Bunch-style family (minus the housekeeper and the familial harmony) to her ill-fated twenty-something job at the School of Rock in Los Angeles.
As a way to bring order to chaos and in search of a more meaningful lifestyle, she finds herself more and more at home in the kitchen, where she begins to learn that even if the results of her culinary efforts fall well short of the standard set by glossy food magazines, they can still bring satisfaction (and sustenance) to her and her family and friends.
Full of hilarious observations about food, family, unemployment, romance, and the extremes of modern L.A., and featuring recipes as basic as Toasted Cheerios and as advanced as gâteau de crêpes, Bon Appétit is sure to resonate with anyone who has tried and failed, and been all the better for it.
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“Author Amelia Morris portrays herself to perfection as she reveals her growing pains and how she found an outlet for life’s rough spots through cooking. Morris recounts her childhood experiences with a steady and sometimes understated narration that make her observations all the funnier. As her story progresses, Morris’s performance becomes livelier as she reacts more vigorously to life’s stressful and mortifying moments and discovers the need to assert herself as an adult. The tastiest parts are revealed when Morris recites recipes and talks about food. Here, her delivery takes on a resonance that conveys her appreciation for food and the process of cooking it as well as the fulfillment she gains from both.”
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"Bon Appétempt is a charming, thoughtful, and touching memoir about growing up and becoming the person and artist you’ve always wanted to be—both inside and outside the kitchen. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and I could not put it down. It also made me very, very hungry for crepes!”
— Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California -
“A winning memoir about youthful befuddlement and finding yourself.”
— People -
“A delicious portrait of love, loss, and what I ate…Morris is masterful and funny…Whether Morris is winning or failing in her relationships or mastery of the dishes, she is always human.”
— News and Observer (Raleigh) -
“The impetus for the blog she starts, with which this book shares its name, was a growing realization that if words failed her, food wouldn’t: cooking, as opposed to writing, became a place to lightheartedly attempt great things, and not feel personally hurt if she failed…Sure to appeal to fans of her personable blog, and to round up new ones.”
— Booklist -
“A refreshing take on growing up and coming to terms with the joys and travails of family, career and navigating the kitchen…Whether Morris is deconstructing her failed attempts at finding satisfying work, struggling with rocky family relationships or experiencing a culinary failure, she adroitly blends the ingredients of humor and self-reflection.”
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“Amelia Morris’ debut, Bon Appétempt, is one of the most compulsively readable books I’ve picked up in years.”
— Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise
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About Amelia Morris
Amelia Morris is the creator of Bon Appétempt, which Time magazine named one of the twenty-five best blogs of 2012. Her work has also been featured in McSweeny’s and the Los Angeles Times, on The Splendid Table, and online at Saveur and Bon Appétit. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she was the recipient of the Margaret Shannon Morton Fellowship. She currently lives on the east side of Los Angeles with her husband, baby son, and small dog.