Everything Is under Control: a Memoir with Recipes

Author(s): Phyllis Grant

Travel Stories

One of Esquire's Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post's Best Food Books of 2020

"In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review


“What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is . . . Like the best chefs, Phyllis Grant knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth, taste, poignancy, and love.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat, Pray, Love

Phyllis Grant’s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant’s story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, 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 pulses in each stage as she moves through the headspace of a young woman longing to be sustained by a city into that of a mother now sustaining a family herself.

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General Fields

  • : 9780008440169
  • : Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
  • : Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
  • : 0.25
  • : June 2020
  • : 2 Centimeters X 13.6 Centimeters X 21.6 Centimeters
  • : books

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  • : 250
  • : Paperback
  • : Phyllis Grant