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When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?” In the basement, Suzan found the tattered treasure, full of handwritten and meticulously typed recipes, peppered with her grandmother Matilda’s commentary in the margins. Reading it, Suzan realized she had found something more than a collection of recipes—she had found the key to her family’s survival through hard times.

Suzan began re-creating Matilda’s “sturdy food” recipes for baked pork chops and beef stew, and Aunt Nettie’s clam chowder made with clams dug up by Suzan’s grandfather Charlie in Long Island Sound. And she began uncovering the stories of her resilient family’s past. Taking inspiration from stylish, indomitable Matilda, who was the sole support of her family as a teenager during the Great Depression (and who always answered “How are you?” with “Fabulous, never better!”), and from dashing, twice-widowed Charlie, Suzan starts to approach her own crisis with a sense of wonder and gratitude. It turns out that the gift to survive and thrive through hard times had been bred in her bones all along.

Cherries in Winter is an irresistible gem of a book. It makes you want to cook, it makes you want to know your own family’s stories, and, above all, it makes you feel rich no matter what.]]> 18359 3.71 102 38 2009 810532 0811835901 9780811835909 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178590136m/810532.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178590136s/810532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/810532.Catwoman_The_Life_and_Times_of_a_Feline_Fatale 3.70 23 18359 3.71 102 38 2003 477553 0316734764 9780316734769 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175096448m/477553.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175096448s/477553.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477553.Smallville_7_Runaway 4.17 6 18359 3.71 102 38 2003 633803 0316734780 9780316734783 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176528136m/633803.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176528136s/633803.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633803.Smallville_9_Temptation 4.50 4 18359 3.71 102 38 2004 633805 0316168483 9780316168489 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176528138m/633805.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176528138s/633805.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633805.Buried_Secrets 4.00 4 18359 3.71 102 38 2003 6093475 1904233449 9781904233442 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6093475.Smallville 5.00 1 18359 3.71 102 38 2004 633833 1904233465 9781904233466 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633833.Smallville 5.00 1 18359 3.71 102 38 2004 7018570 0307702871 9780307702876 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/570/7018570-m-1256092487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/570/7018570-s-1256092487.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7018570-cherries-in-winter 4.00 1
When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?” In the basement, Suzan found the tattered treasure, full of handwritten and meticulously typed recipes, peppered with her grandmother Matilda’s commentary in the margins. Reading it, Suzan realized she had found something more than a collection of recipes—she had found the key to her family’s survival through hard times.

Suzan began re-creating Matilda’s “sturdy food” recipes for baked pork chops and beef stew, and Aunt Nettie’s clam chowder made with clams dug up by Suzan’s grandfather Charlie in Long Island Sound. And she began uncovering the stories of her resilient family’s past. Taking inspiration from stylish, indomitable Matilda, who was the sole support of her family as a teenager during the Great Depression (and who always answered “How are you?” with “Fabulous, never better!”), and from dashing, twice-widowed Charlie, Suzan starts to approach her own crisis with a sense of wonder and gratitude. It turns out that the gift to survive and thrive through hard times had been bred in her bones all along.

Cherries in Winter is an irresistible gem of a book. It makes you want to cook, it makes you want to know your own family’s stories, and, above all, it makes you feel rich no matter what.


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