Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger by Lisa Donovan

Monday, August 23 through Friday, September 3, 2021. Read by Susan Sweeney.

Noted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South’s most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet, Donovan had been told at every juncture on her career and life that she wasn’t enough. She came from a struggling southern family that felt ashamed of its own mixed-race heritage and whose elders diminished their women. She survived abuse and assault as a young mother. In spite of it all, her salvations were food, self-reliance, and the network of women in food who stood by her.

(Penguin Press; ISBN-10 : 0525560947 / ISBN-13 : 978-0525560944)

Theme: “Union Branch” and “My Poor Old Heart”, Alison Krauss and Union Station – Lonely Runs Both Ways; Rounder Records