Stir will feed you, even after the last page is turned."- Molly Wizenberg, creator of Orangette and author of the New York Times bestseller A Homemade Life “Jessica Fechtor writes with remarkable lucidity, courage, and grace about the darkest and brightest moments a person can know. “Pairing food with the nightmare of surviving a brain aneurysm shouldn't work-but under Jessica Fechtor's wise and wonderful narration, the pairing not only works, it shines."- Susannah Cahalan, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire Woven throughout the narrative are 27 recipes for dishes that comfort and delight. For readers of M.F.K.Fisher, Molly Wizenberg, and Tamar Adler, as well as Oliver Sacks, Jill Bolte Taylor, and Susannah Cahalan, Stir is sure to inspire, and send you straight to the kitchen. Written with intelligence, humor, and warmth, Stir is a heartfelt examination of what it means to nourish and be nourished.
There, she drew strength from the restorative power of cooking and baking. Jessica’s journey to recovery began in the kitchen as soon as she was able to stand at the stovetop and stir.
She lost her sense of smell, the sight in her left eye, and was forced to the sidelines of the life she loved. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. A national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other.Īt 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family.
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