Publisher: New York: Pamela Dorman Books, 2015
Pages: 312
“You want to feed carrot cake to a 4-month-old?”
Eva Thorvald is raised in Minnesota by her single dad, Lars, after her mother runs away with a sommelier when Eva is a baby. Passionate chef Lars devotes himself to raising his baby daughter and imbuing her palate with the flavours of the Great Midwest. It starts with puréed pork shoulder… Then carrot cake. And so begins Eva’s love affair with food, the grounding force that carries her through life’s ups and downs.
Divided into three acts, we watch as Eva goes from growing hydroponic chocolate habaneros in her closet as a preteen, to being a superstar chef with her own exclusive pop-up supper club as an adult. Eva’s life is chronicled in a fashion both quirky and engaging, each chapter told from the perspective of different figures in her life.
By turns hilarious and moving, Kitchens of the Great Midwest
is for lovers of character-driven, relationship fiction; foodies; followers of
contemporary literature; and anyone who is after a light but rewarding read.
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