Home made : a story of grief, groceries, showing up--and what we make when we make dinner / Liz Hauck.
"Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off of her father's long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525512431
- ISBN: 0525512438
- Physical Description: xx, 376 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Dial Press, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Hauck, Liz. High school teachers > Biography. Group homes > Food service. Fathers and daughters. Juvenile delinquents > Services for. Juvenile delinquents > Rehabilitation. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 362.7483 HAUCK 2021 (Text) | 0001002455580 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Home Made : A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing up--And What We Make When We Make Dinner
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * An "extraordinary" ( The New York Times Book Review ) tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman's attempt to answer the essential question Who are we to one another? "Your heart will be altered by this book."--Gregory Boyle, S.J., New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn't know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off her father's long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners. "The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries," Liz writes, "and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that's why, when we don't know what else to do, we feed our neighbors." Capturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SHE READS