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Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way To Live
By Ahdoot, Dan & Braitman, Laurel & Dowd, Michelle & Freeman, Hadley & Mark, Sabrina Orah & Martin, Clancy & Miller, Michelle & Mouton, Deborah D.E.E.P. & Ramotwala, Tabitha & Robbins, Laura Cathcart & Snyder, Rachel Louise
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Reviewed on October 1, 2022 | Prepub Alert
Stand-up comic, actor (e.g., Netflix's Cobra Kai), and host of the No. 1 food podcast in the country, Green Eggs and Dan, Ahdoot uses an essay format in Undercooked to explain how food became a crutch and finally a dangerous obsession for him, starting with his brother's untimely death. Before he died of cancer, Braitman's father rushed to teach her important things like how to fix a carburetor and play good practical jokes; long after his death, she realized the cost of What Looks Like Bravery in suppressing her sorrow at his passing; following the New York Times best-selling Animal Madness. In Forager, journalism professor Dowd recalls her upbringing in the fervently Christian cult Field, founded by her domineering grandfather, where she was often cold, hungry, and abused and learned to put her trust in the natural world. Hospitalized from ages of 14 to 17 with anorexia nervosa, Freeman (House of Glass) recalls in Good Girls her subsequent years as a "functioning anorexic" and interviews d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
