Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple.
A surprising and rambunctiously liberating tale of cooking and eating, loving and being loved, Licking the Spoon is the story of howaccompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guidesone woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life's next meal.