The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
Richard and Judy talk to Aimee Bender about her Richard & Judy Autumn Book Club 2011 title - The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake
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The Millions : Eating Your Feelings: Aimee Bender's The Particular ...
What I ate while absorbed in the pages of this book seemed to matter more than with most others, because Benderâs latest is really about the intimate experience of food. When her mother bakes her the titular lemon cake (with chocolate frosting) for her ninth birthday, Rose realizes she has the burdensome ability to taste peopleâs feelings in the food they cook. Later, there was a batch of sangria made to salvage an overly sweet bottle of red wine, saved by some fresh lemon juice, tart nectarines and the strawberries that have just come into season. , I was eating the food that is, to me, more delicious and comforting than almost anything else in the world: shredded cheddar-jack cheese melted on Tostitos tortilla chips. Behind her motherâs whirling energy and loving gestures, Rose tastes her emptiness, so bitter she can barely choke it down:. Her protagonist, Rose Edelstein, has an excruciatingly sensitive palate. I stick a pan of them under the broiler and let the cheese......
Rose is just a little girl when Aimee Bender's novel opens. Her mother makes her a lemon cake with chocolate frosting, a practice run for her birthday cake,
