Tales From A Hungry Life A Memoir with Recipes

Tales From A Hungry Life: A Memoir with Recipes is the story of a not-so-typical 1970s American family that lived, loved, and ate like there was no tomorrow. Italian and Puerto Rican—and definitely American—they were the Sopranos with a Spanish twist, a whole lot less money and only their own blood on their hands.
Come meet the distinctly ethnic families brought together when Lou met Sarita…and 7 children bound them together for good. Visit their tiny brick house in Queens, New York, where rock-n-roll blasted from the basement every night of the year (plus holidays!) while spaghetti and meatballs or chicken and rice simmered on the stove. Meet the relatives and friends whose everyday lives gave that girl one more good reason to laugh…and eat. Through the years, they all faced hope and despair, love and loss, for better or for worse, with a fork and a knife in their hands.
It’s a sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant collection of stories about a girl who spent Wednesday afternoons munching at her Latino grandmother’s house; who thought that every barbecue included pepper and egg sandwiches and a tray of lasagna; who spent a sweaty summer cutting her hair and hiding from the Son of Sam; and who grew up to meet a handsome boy who was not Italian or Puerto Rican—but German—and who helped her face life with just one question: when do we eat?
Tales From A Hungry Life: A Memoir with Recipes goes back to the days when disco was king and rock-n-roll was rebellion, the Dorothy Hamill was the “in” hairstyle, and no self-respecting Italian ate bottled spaghetti sauce. It’s filled with pounds of lip-smacking stories, a hearty helping of old family recipes, and a pinch of whimsical thoughts on the meaning of life that are as substantial as the meringue on a lemon pie. But all of these stories celebrate a time, a place, and a group of people who knew one thing: to eat together was to live.