Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love by Bob Shacochis

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  • ISBN 10 1595341919
  • ISBN 13 9781595341914
  • Published Sep 26 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 368
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Trinity University Press,U.S.
  • Imprint Trinity University Press,U.S.

Publishers Text

Bob Shacochis, author of the critically acclaimed novel "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul," and National Book Award winning-author of such books as "Swimming in the Volcano, Easy in the Islands," and "The Next New World," hones his nonfiction skills in this tour de force romp through the worlds of eating and eroticism. "Domesticity" is an irreverent exploration of the sweet and sour evolution of the enduring romance between author and lover. In this relationship, Shacochis stays at home and cooks, all the while reflecting on the ups and downs of a romantic partnership, the connection between heart and stomach, and how the crazed lust of youth evolves into inevitably settling down and, well, simply making dinner. Shacochis's delectable musings on monogamy, emotional and physical separations, dogs, career changes, the stress of the holidays, the aesthetics of food, moving, sex and seafood, friendships, writings and the angst over who is going to do the dishes are deftly folded into seventy-five recipes, half of them of the author's own creation. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, "Domesticity" is Shacochis's celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, "Domesticity" is a celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point, a "prose stew" of audacious candor, a culinary valentine for lovers of literature.

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