Heartburn novel

Drain lightly and salt and eat with a nice stiff drink. Add whole blanched almonds and saute until they’re golden brown with a few little burned parts. Here are the recipes of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. I scoured the Internet, but couldn’t find all of them recorded in any one place together. They seem simple but comforting, like something you’d find on a notecard handed down through your family. This book is headed back to the library, but I wanted to keep the recipes for future use. Food underscores so many of the book’s emotional moments–punctuating emotions one second and obscuring them the next–just like it does in real life. In keeping with that theme, a dozen or so recipes are interwoven into the book’s plot.

The main character is a cookbook writer known for interspersing personal stories with her recipes. This book is a funny, moving story of heartbreak from one of the most distinctive voices of the last 40 years–but did you know that it’s also a cookbook? You can read my short review of it on Goodreads. I just finished reading Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.