My First Popsicle - Zosia Mamet

Food Writing

Rating: 8/10

There are few things we can’t live without, of those: air, water, sleep, and food, only food is indelibly connected to us both body and soul.

If you think about it for a minute, the most significant occasions in our lives transpire in the presence of food.  Births, deaths, breakups, engagements, hirings and even firings.  Food consumed can elevate the joys of our lives and soothe the pains. Some struggle to allow it to nourish them, others cannot access enough to feed their basic hunger. Any way you cut it, food is a subject ripe with associations; stories, attachments, memories, disorders, the list is endless.

Zosia Mamet undertook a labour of love to gather stories about the food that people associate with a particular remembrance or feeling. The tone of the essays vary from the melancholic to the joyful, but they are all generously shared and vastly unique.

While you are taking sustenance from this sumptuous collection you will asking yourself…what is my most poignant memory surrounding food?  I still haven’t found my answer, although the image of pop tarts keeps flashing in my brain.

My Fav Food Tales

Ball Buster

Go Figure

Donut Go Gentle

Intuitive Eating

On Running Away Food

Pesto Chango

Solitary Pizza

Book Pairing(s): Eat A Peach by David Chang, The Food Lover’s Handbook by Mark Price, Savor by Fatima Ali, Serving Up by Zoe Adjonyoh, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry