You want to understand the subject, and you want to meet the historian. Context is everything, and Schiff defines it she interrogates her sources, makes every detail count, and her style is intriguing - sharp-eyed, discriminating, crisp. But using the past as stand-in for the present often sells it short, and gives its complexities permission to elude us. Arthur Miller used the Salem story as a metaphor for the McCarthy era's paranoia. Was it like The Crucible? No, it was worse. Adolescent girls, denouncing their neighbours, began a fashion for denunciation it resulted in nineteen hangings, in torture, in the fracture of families and communities, and in the spectacle of a seven-year-old kept in miniature manacles. like a giant bowl of spaghetti carbonara or a tower of huevos rancheros (recipes included) this is a book that teenagers and parents will savor in equal measure.Stacy Schiff's The Witches deals with a horror we assume we know, but don't: the moral panic that tore apart the towns of Massachusetts in the seventeenth century. “Knisley’s candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line storytelling make the book entirely accessible. Step aside, Joy of Cooking.” -Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home “Lucy Knisley’s delightful drawings don’t just tell great stories, they’re a crystal-clear how-to guide to everything worth doing in the kitchen.

Her language, like her drawings, is precise and uncluttered.” - New York Times “Between chapters, Knisley offers simple, neatly diagrammed recipes (chocolate chip cookies! pesto! sangria!).

“Lovingly illustrated and annotated in her bright, cartoony style.” -NPR Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy’s original inventions.Ī welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a graphic novel for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly.

Relish by lucy knisley