FoodRelated Stories, Gaby Melian
FoodRelated Stories, Gaby Melian
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Food-Related Stories

Author: Gaby Melian

Narrator: Gaby Melian

Unabridged: 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2022


Synopsis

“Gaby Melian tells so many stories through her relationship with food—about love, about loss, about hard work, and about finding her passion. The pages are dripping with delicious smells and tastes, and will give you a new way to look at both cooking and what it means to have a plan.” —Molly Birnbaum, editor in chief, America’s Test Kitchen Kids

In this moving, personal account, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her journey with food and how creating a relationship with food -- however simple or complicated -- is a form of activism in its own right.

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. This is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists.

"Food rescued me so many other times -- not only because I sold food to survive. I cook to entertain; I cook to be liked; I cook to be loved." In this installment, chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food -- from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later, as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Powerful and full of heart, here, Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's healthy, sustainable, and thoughtful.

About The Author

Gaby Melian is a professional chef with almost twenty years of industry experience and a lifetime of personal knowledge about food and all its many wonderful flavors. She shares her deep love of food and vast kitchen know-how across multiple food media outlets. Her life in food has led her to many roles, including street vendor, culinary instructor, official Food Revolution ambassador, Bon Appétit test kitchen manager, cooking video host—and who knows what’s next! Gaby completed her culinary training at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City with degrees in Culinary Management, Culinary Arts, and Pastry Arts. Find her on Instagram @gabymelian.Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, currently based in Los Angeles. Ashley uses illustration and art as tools to strengthen social movements against systemic racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant policy. She aims to tear down these systems of oppression through first envisioning and drawing a world without them. Her clients include Refinery29, Broadly, The Washington Post, Planned Parenthood, Girls Who Code, GOOD magazine, Brooklyn magazine, ACLU, Red Bull, Snapchat, Air Jordan, and Logo TV. Ashley is also the illustrator of the best-selling Antiracist Baby, by Ibram X. Kendi.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Smriti on May 02, 2022

Good short read but honestly didn't take much from it. Also, didn't help that I hadn't known who the author was before reading this book. While i expected stories of her life through food, i got the story of her life featuring food. I don't know if you understand the difference, but if you do, good.......more

Goodreads review by Jas on February 17, 2022

This is a sweet collection of stories related to food, nostalgia, and how we connect with one another.......more

Goodreads review by Ezra on January 02, 2025

I'm not sure how this fits into the overall Pocket Change Collective series: the other books I've read were by changemakers bringing attention to an issue and calling for action or inspiring readers to learn more, and this one felt out of place. I suppose I was expecting this read to take readers on......more

Goodreads review by Bri on February 03, 2022

At its core, this book is a love letter to food and all that goes into the process of creating it. The summary of this book and my previous experiences with reading Pocket Change Collective’s other books led me to believe that I would hear a lot of Gaby Melian’s thoughts about food-related-activism,......more

Goodreads review by Kayla on August 18, 2021

I received a free review copy of Food-Related Stories from Netgalley. Food-Related Stories is exactly what its title suggests. It is made of little vignettes that don’t quite come together to form a cohesive point. There’s a lot of biographical information that seems like it could either lead to more......more