The Family Dinner: A Celebration of Love, Laughter, and Leftovers

by Linda Sunshine, Mary Tiegreen
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Clarkson Potter (2003-03-11)
ISBN: 1400045924
EAN: 9781400045921
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 112 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 2003-03-11
SKU: 102908056
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Hardcover with dusjtacket, no writing, has mild shelf / handling wear to the edges and corners. All items ship from a smoke-free home.

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Product Description
The family dinner is the one moment during the day when we sit down together to enjoy a good meal, engage in lively conversation, and, too often, experience mass hysteria.

The family table is also a place where we gather in times of celebration and sadness, to embrace food and each other. “The table is a place of communion for life’s large and small events,” writes master chef Art Smith.

And all of us have experienced the enlightenment of the holiday meal. “You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving,” says Shirley MacLaine. “In an hour, you realize how far you’ve got to go and who is the real turkey.”

In The Family Dinner, authors Linda Sunshine and Mary Tiegreen celebrate this phenomenon of family life with photographs and written excerpts from a wide spectrum of families—rich and poor, immigrant and suburban, gourmet and kitchen-challenged. With love, grace, and a big dollop of humor, the authors remind us that family dinners, however defined or indigestible, exemplify who we are and where we came from.

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one,” says Jane Howard.

So here is the perfect gift book for anyone who cooks for you or eats with you, and for all of us who gather together around a table.

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