Slices of Life : A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum

For nearly a decade, Leah Eskin has been serving up chronicles of everyday life, along with mouthwatering recipes, to the readers of her "Home on the Range" column in the Chicago Tribune . Now she has whipped up Slice of Life , a collection of her columns covering everything from her early married days to parenting adolescents--and everything in between. From "Best Friend Biscuits" to "Recovery Paella" to "Sullen Child Oatmeal Squares," there's always a recipe to cope with life's sticky situations: the dinner party gone awry, the mortifying soccer match, the houseguest who eats nothing, the teenager who won't listen. She tells the story of family life through its ordinary disasters--and pleasures. Slice of Life is both a charming memoir told through food, and with more than 200 recipes, it's also a delectable cookbook that will enchant anyone who appreciates the big and little moments of life. Bad Haircut Kale Chips. Post-ER Roast Chicken. New Baby Risotto. Frantic Dinner-Party Calming Soup. These are some of the dishes that food writer Leah Eskin has turned out during her years of raising two children, enduring one dog, and tending her marriage. She's also nurtured her ten-year-old food column, "Home on the Range," providing a recipe and accompanying vignette in the Chicago Tribune every week. Slices of Life transforms those columns into a memoir that readers can savor in small or large bites. It's a compilation of more than 200 recipes, with a generous helping of the life stories that happened along the way: moving-day potatoes, summer-vacation apricot pie, dead-microwave ratatouille, sullen-child oatmeal squares. Whether preparing recipes for disaster or delight, Leah Eskin has made it all delicious! Bad Haircut Kale Chips. Post-ER Roast Chicken. New Baby Risotto. Frantic Dinner-Party Calming Soup. These are some of the dishes that food writer Leah Eskin has turned out during her years of raising two children, enduring one dog, and tending her marriage. She's also nurtured her ten-year-old food column, "Home on the Range," providing a recipe and accompanying vignette in the Chicago Tribune every week. Slices of Life transforms those columns into a memoir that readers can savour in small or large bites. It's a compilation of more than 200 recipes, with a generous helping of the life stories that happened along the way: moving-day potatoes, summer-vacation apricot pie, dead-microwave ratatouille, sullen-child oatmeal squares. Whether preparing recipes for disaster or delight, Leah Eskin has made it all delicious! The Chicago Tribune Food Writer Transforms [her] Columns Into A Memoir, ... A Compilation Of More Than 200 Recipes, With A Generous Helping Of The Life Stories That Happened Along The Way: Moving-day Potatoes, Summer-vacation Apricot Pie, Dead-microwave Ratatouille, Sullen-child Oatmeal Squares--dust Jacket Flap. By Leah Eskin ; Illustrated By Alison Seiffer Spacek. Includes Index.