Full name: Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste

Author: Ayun Halliday Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781580051507 1580051502

Ayun Halliday's fourth book, Dirty Sugar Cookies, takes readers into the unpredictable mind and comical experiences of a true anti-foodie, giving even the most hopeless cooks a moment of relief from self-criticism, and the least discriminating eaters a reality check. Halliday started out a repressed picky eater without so much as a single fast-food-loving sibling to save her from the gourmet ambitions of a mother whose recipe for Far East Celery once received favorable mention in the Indianapolis Star. Her palate has since expanded to the degree that she'll fork down anything from chili-smothered insects that pass for an exotic destination's local delicacies to a peanut found wedged between the cushions of a theater seat. From summer camp's unlimited Pop-Tarts to the post-coital breakfasts of a well-traveled actress-waitress and the frustrating payback of cooking for some finicky offspring of the author's own, Dirty Sugar Cookies is an omnivorous, hilarious chronicle of culinary awakening. Similar books: Spoon Fed by Kim Severson Consuming Passions by Michael Lee West Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl Eating My Words by Mimi Sheraton Poor Man's Feast by Elissa Altman Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones Talking with My Mouth Full by Bonny Wolf Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen Alice, Let's Eat by Calvin Trillin Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me by Ariel Leve Someone Will Be with You Shortly by Lisa Kogan My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper As They Were by M. F. K. Fisher When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls