EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL

A gorgeous, raw, and riveting memoir-in-pieces about food, family, and opportunities both taken and missed

Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite—as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. With sparse, affecting prose, and an unsparing eye toward her, and her environment's, darkest corners, Grant's story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a starving dancer struggling to find her place at Juilliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love with her future husband and leaving the city after 9/11 for California where her children are born. All the while, a sense of longing roils in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city, to a mother now sustaining a family herself.

Written with the raw transparency of a diarist, Everything Is Under Control is an unputdownable series of vignettes followed by tried-and-true recipes from Grant's table--a heartrending yet unsentimental portrait of the highs and lows of young adulthood, motherhood, and a life in the kitchen.

O memorie in bucati superbe, crude si captivante despre mancare, familie si oportunitati luate si ratate Totul este sub control al lui Phyllis Grant este un memoriu despre pofta de mancare - pe masura ce vine, merge si isi reorienteaza obiectul dorintei. Cu o proza rara, afectanta, si un ochi neinfricat fata de ea, si de cele mai intunecate colturi ale mediului inconjurator, povestea lui Grant urmeaza contururile uneori netede, uneori zimtate, revelatoare intotdeauna ale vietii ei: din zilele ei de dansatoare infometata care se lupta sa-si gaseasca locul Juilliard, la experientele ei din si din bucatariile de patru stele din New York, la indragostirea de viitorul ei sot si la parasirea orasului dupa 11 septembrie in California, unde se nasc copiii ei.