The Comfort Food Diaries

Food writer Emily Nunn knows how to make the best of a low moment, said Nina Martyris in NPR.org. After drunkenly pouring her heart out one night on Facebook, she awoke to an inbox full of invitations from friends and family and decided to embark on a road trip to break bread with all of them. “Misery memoirs run the risk of having soggy bottoms,” of course, but Nunn’s writing “has a crisp textural bite.” Her travels have produced an “insightful, unsparing, and touching” memoir.