Description
“More local color than a steamed lobster wearing wild blueberry bracelets, along with a mess of wistful nostalgia for any reader raised in Maine or New England.” —Portland Press Herald
Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soul
An award-winning collection of essays by internationally recognized and beloved foodies, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what’s on our plates engages with what’s off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class.
Here, you’ll find reflections from top literary talents and food writers like
- Award-winning novelist Lily King on connecting with her children over a tweaked chocolate chip cookie recipe
- Pulitzer Prize recipient Richard Russo on the Italian soup his mother snubbed that he came to enjoy
- Coauthor of Mad Honey Jennifer Finney Boylan on how cheese pizza holds her family together through the good and the bad
- Coauthor of About Grief Brian Shuff on how greasy takeout can be life-giving food for the grieving soul
- Award-winning writer Ron Currie on the childhood shame—and adult pride—of your mother being a “lunch lady”
- Author and homesteader Margaret Hathaway on building a community cookbook to bring food and family together in the early days of COVID-19
Other essays address a beloved childhood food from Iran, the horror of starving in a prison camp, and the urge to bake pot brownies for an ill friend.
Rich and flavorful,
Breaking Bread brings together some of the most influential voices in the literary and food worlds to show how we experience life through the foods we eat.
Proceeds from this collection will benefit Blue Angel, a Maine-based nonprofit founded by writer and
Breaking Bread coeditor Deborah Joy Corey to combat hunger. The organization purchases food from local farmers and delivers it directly to families in need.
About the Author
Debra Sparkis the author ofThe Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception that will be published in April 2012 byFour Way Books. She is the author of the novelsCoconuts for the Saint, The Ghost of BridgetownandGood for the Jews. Spark edited the best-selling anthologyTwenty Under Thirty: Best Stories by America's New Young Writersand her popular lectures on writing are collected inCurious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing. Spark has also written forEsquire, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Food and Wine, Yankee, Down East, The Washington Post, Maine Home + DesignandThe San Francisco Chronicle, among other places. She has been the recipient of several awards including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Bunting Institute fellowship from Radcliffe College, and the John Zacharis/Ploughshares award for best first book. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth, Maine.
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