This was the first of Lucy Knisley's books I read, and after a second pass it remains my favorite. However, I want to add that I like it EVEN MORE now, after having read most of her other works as well. So read them all, preferably in chronological order, and enjoy this one as a particularly yummy treat in the middle!

Lucy has had an extraordinarily interesting life- as the only child of divorced foodies, she was raised in the kitchen, working in farmer's market stalls, in gardens, as a food server and in a cheese shop. She is also very well traveled, and in this book alone accounts stories from Rome, Tokyo, Mexico, Chicago and New York (her home city). But she also has a joyful talent of imbuing even ordinary experiences with wonderful insight and compassion. I highly recommend her works, and also her instagram, which is these days full of sweet doodles of her family and her cat.