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Pen & Palate

Mastering the Art of Adulthood, with Recipes

Hardcover

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Digital Audiobook (5/30/2016)

Description

From the writers of acclaimed blog Pen & Palate, a humorous coming-of-age (and mastering-the-art-of-dwelling-cooking) memoir of friendship, told through stories, recipes, and beautiful illustrations.

Getting through life in your twenties isn't like shooting fish in a barrel--especially if you're broke, bad-mannered, and prone to starting pocket-size grease fires in your studio apartment. For all-time friends Lucy Madison and Tram Nguyen, cooking was an escape from the daily humiliation that is being a twenty-something woman in a big metropolis.

Pen & Palate traces the course of Lucy and Tram'due south devoted friendship through miserable jobs and tiny apartments, commencement loves and ill-advised flings, successes and setbacks--always with a shared honey of food at the center of the narrative. A mod take on Laurie Colwin's classic Domicile Cooking, this coming-of-age memoir for the Girls set weaves together comical (mis)adventures and recipes meant to be shared with a best friend and a bottle of vino.

Praise For Pen & Palate: Mastering the Fine art of Adulthood, with Recipes…

"Information technology's cookbook as bildungsroman. The recipes are peachy, but greater notwithstanding is the pair'due south unvarnished take on the comedic hideousness of being immature and totally confused near everything from love to work to how much the steam oestrus in your crappy Manhattan apartment costs."— Bookforum

"Told with charming practiced humor, this millennial-girls-taking-on-the-globe story will take readers immediately casting themselves and their girlfriends as either a Lucy or a Tram . . . An accented must-have for young women and a perfect addition to food and memoir collections."
— Library Journal

"[Lucy and Tram'southward] advice on how to get through that fraught mail service-higher decade: Adept food, good friends, and plenty of wine. Oh, and listen to your mother (sometimes). . . . PEN & PALATE offers some lived-in communication for surviving your twenties--and eating well along the way."
— Nutrient & Wine

"I take rarely devoured a book every bit speedily and every bit joyfully as PEN & PALATE. I paused in my reading but to snack-the volume made me so happy, and then hungry. Likewise beingness a brilliantly conceived, beautifully illustrated, funny and delicious book, PEN & PALATE is too the story of a real, deep, and wonderful friendship."— Emily Gould, writer of Friendship and And the Center Says Any

"PEN & PALATE is a mod tale of friendship and food. Lucy and Tram learn many of life's tough lessons: first, common cold SpaghettiOs are not better than your mom'south homemade caramel and kokosnoot braised pork, and second, yous tin can't hide from your true self (and it but so happens, your true self is really pretty swell)."— Amelia Morris, author of Bon Appétempt

"PEN & PALATE lets you tag forth on the fun, sad, and sometimes kind of embarrassing journey of ii immature women stumbling into their ain identities, while property fast to one another. Weaving in the hallmark recipes of each chapter in their lives, Lucy and Tram have made a cozy and satisfying meal out of their stories-the kind that makes you want to sit down at the tabular array and chat all nighttime long."— Kelsey Miller, writer of Big Girl

Chiliad Central Life & Style, 9781455535057, 304pp.

Publication Appointment: May 31, 2016

About the Author

Lucy Madison is a New York Metropolis-based journalist and editor, and a senior editor at Food & Vino mag. She has worked for publications including W, Interview, Teen Vogue, Lucky, BonAppetit.com, Refinery29, The Awl.com, and more.

Tram Nguyen is Chicago-based illustrator and costume designer, who has congenital costumes and props for television, impress, theater, and professional sports teams. Her work has appeared in Elle.com, Nylonmag.com, Lucky, and more than.