title: The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart
author:  Emily Nunn 
description: Nunns sharp writing, studded with sarcastic aphorism, has a crisp textural bitea heart-heartwarming safari of food, friendship, and simple joysFood thus becomes a way of seeing, an invaluable touchstone for understanding what real love is. Not just for Nunn, but for all those who read this insightful, unsparing and touching memoir. (<i>NPR</i>)<br /><br />[Nunn] has cooked all of these vibrant flavours into a memoirI tasted it, bright on every page, and I finished hungry for more. (<i>The Guardian (UK)</i>)<br /><br />"The Comfort Food Diaries is nothing less than a tour de force by Emily Nunn, our most hilarious and touching food writer. You'll laugh, you'll cry ... and you'll get hungry." (Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything)<br /><br />"Come for the poignant personal reflections, stay for the recipes for country ham biscuits and grandmas lemon cake." (<i>Eater</i>)<br /><br />"Honest, brave, funny, and greedy...By the end you want to hug Nunn--and cook her dinner. A tribute to the redemptive power of food." (<i>The Telegraph (UK)</i>)<br /><br />"An exploration of the power of comfort foods...[a] beautifully written narrative, rich in details, and filled with humor and poignancy." (<i>Library Journal</i>)<br /><br />A delightful ridewith recipes. (<i>People</i>)<br /><br />Humorous and moving.A candid memoir of despair and triumph over depression. Nourishing, truthful reflections on family, friends, and love all wrapped up in the idea of food as sustenance for both the body and the soul. (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)<br /><br />"Gorgeous and moving...With powerful prose and rich details,[Nunn's] memoir is simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking." (<i>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</i>)<br /><br />"Emily Nunn's <i>The Comfort Food Diaries</i> is a beautiful story of hunger, nurturing, and recovery. Written with candor and an often hilarious Southern Gothic edge, it is everything great food memoir should be: delicious, delightful, heart-rending, soul-filling, and ultimately, healing." (Elissa Altman, author of Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw)
zlib_text: PERFECTLY SHATTERED
  A New Adult Romance
   
   
  By
  Emily Jane Trent
   
  
   
  Chapter 1
  In the few short weeks Cami had been in Seattle, she’d grown to love it. As her knife flew over the
  mushrooms, cutting them just so, she peeked out the window for another look at the bay. The day was
  disappearing, turning the sky from deep purple to crimson with a blinding strip of yellow that was all
  that was left of the sun.
  With temperatures barely over fifty degrees and constant drizzle, many people complained the
  weather was dreary or even depressing. But Cami found it exhilarating. The big city was bursting
  with music, art, coffee, and good food, which was her passion. She still pinched herself that she’d
  landed a job.
  Blue Skirt Catering was a small company but perfect, something she could handle. The city was
  big and overwhelming, though in a good way, and starting with something more intimate suited her.
  Reaching for the celery, she switched knives and continued to chop. The lace knit blouse she wor