Bon Appetempt

A Coming-of-Age Story (with Recipes!)

By: Amelia Morris

Narrated by: Amelia Morris

When Amelia Morris saw a towering, beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appétit and took the recipe home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it resulted in a terrible (but tasty) mess that had to be served in an oversize bowl. It was also a revelation. Both delicious and damaged, it seemed a physical metaphor for the many curious and unexpected situations she's found herself in throughout her life, from her brief career as a six-year-old wrestler to her Brady Bunch-style family (minus the housekeeper and the familial harmony) to her ill-fated twenty-something job at the School of Rock in Los Angeles.

As a way to bring order to chaos and in search of a more meaningful lifestyle, she finds herself more and more at home in the kitchen, where she begins to learn that even if the results of her culinary efforts fall well short of the standard set by glossy food magazines, they can still bring satisfaction (and sustenance) to her and her family and friends.

Full of hilarious observations about food, family, unemployment, romance, and the extremes of modern L.A., and featuring recipes as basic as Toasted Cheerios and as advanced as gâteau de crêpes, Bon Appétit is sure to resonate with anyone who has tried and failed, and been all the better for it.

Delicious literacy

Super sweet novel of the messy reality of life. Loved the inclusion of the recipes also. Props to Amelia for this book and continuing her blog life.

I desperately wanted to like this book. :(

long time fan of the blog, but this book is mainly about her personal life, which is, sorry to say, a lot less interesting than any other numerous subjects she could have written about. the overall negative, slightly complaining tone did not add to my enjoyment (ie the Paris chapter, for instance).