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I love the style and cadence of this writer. I deeply admire anyone that can write about food and make me hungry. This offered a glimpse into her life through the opening of her and her husband's restaurant. That is wasn't always as idyllic as this average Joe would want to imagine. I want to a. Go to Seattle and have a wood fired pizza, and b. Make some cherry coconut rice pudding...right now.
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Reading Delancey I kept wishing Spreeder was already up and running, because this would have been the perfect book to speed read through. Everyone is reading it, so I felt compelled to, but overall, it was a bit bland for me.
The book is slow - going into a lot of detail about literally opening a restaurant. Now, I know that's what this book is about, but I supposed I figured that would be the background, to something more important really, as memoirs or oft to do.
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The book is slow - going into a lot of detail about literally opening a restaurant. Now, I know that's what this book is about, but I supposed I figured that would be the background, to something more important really, as memoirs or oft to do.
Towards the end, the last thirty ...more
This book quickly dispelled any idealized notions of owning a neighborhood restaurant and I found myself both laughing and cringing at the all consuming effort Molly and her husband put into creating Delancey. My father is a chef and my first job was working in a kitchen but like Molly I've always been more drawn to the intimacy of home cooking than to the frenetic pace of working in a large kitchen, and this book definitely reconfirmed that for me. Overall it was a quick and fun read that I enj
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She didn’t think he’d do it. He said he was going to do it, but she didn’t think he really would. He did it. She didn’t like it.
Molly’s husband decided to open a pizza restaurant. It was hard work. Very hard work. Molly realized quite soon that running a pizza restaurant wasn’t for her.
A lovely true story of Delancey, a pizza restaurant in Seattle. With recipes.
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