Life from Scratch, Sasha Martin
Life from Scratch, Sasha Martin
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Life from Scratch
A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

Author: Sasha Martin

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2015

Synopsis

Sasha Martin set herself a rather ambitious goal: to cook—and eat—her way around the world with 196 recipes from 196 countries in 196 weeks. Enter Global Table Adventure, a project that proves to be more than just a culinary challenge as Sasha attempts to navigate the vicissitudes of marriage, motherhood, and life’s failures and successes, all inextricably linked to her troubled past.For Sasha, food and cooking unlock the memories of a difficult childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it. She and her brother lived with their mother in Boston before being placed in foster care with a family in Europe. Among the hard moments of her young life, the most difficult occurred when Sasha was just twelve years old—she witnessed her brother’s suicide.As she mines her past to make sense of her childhood, food allows Sasha to find her own place in the world—and create the home she has been craving her whole life. This is a story about food from around the globe but also about how food can transform us, about being a mother and a wife, about loving the world, and about learning to love ourselves.

About Sasha Martin

Sasha Martin is an award­-winning writer and blogger. Her work has been featured on NPR and WholeLiving.com as well as in Bon Appétit, Smithsonian, and the Huffington Post. Her website, Global Table Adventure, is a go­-to hub for global foodies. She is a sought-­after presenter, having spoken at many schools, seminars, and dinners. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her family.

About Andi Arndt

Andi Arndt is a professional voice actor, the winner of a 2017 Audie Award for Best Romance, and winner of two Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melodie on February 06, 2016

Our relationship with food is complicated. Never is that more clear than with this memoir of a young woman's journey to self acceptance. The author chronicles her life with some of the recipes from her childhood and most from her career as a food blogger. Like most of us, her life's journey is comp......more

Goodreads review by Raquel on February 06, 2015

When I picked up Sasha Martin’s book, Life From Scratch, I wasn’t sure what I was in for. Is it a cookbook? Is it an autobiography? Within seconds of reading, the beauty of the story cleared my senses and opened my eyes to what I hope is the next trend in cookbooks...the story behind the food. Food......more

Goodreads review by Deb on May 31, 2017

Read for Cook the Books virtual foodie bookclub Probably 3.5 stars total --3 for the first half and 4 for the second half. Review Excerpt: "Life From Scratch was an interesting book for me. I found myself avoiding reading it for the first half-ish of the book because Sasha Martin's depiction of her chi......more

Goodreads review by Ananya on April 20, 2015

This is not a book that I intended to read. I was looking up for something else in goodreads when the title caught my eye at the recommendations column. Growing up, I never had a loving relationship with food or cooking. To me, cooking was a burden borne by women as a norm of patriarchal society. Fo......more

Quotes

“An amazing family tale. Poignant and uplifting, not to mention delicious.” A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically

“A poignant memoir. The author, a popular food blogger, reaches into her past to figure out why she began cooking in the first place. As she untangles her deeply emotional relationship with food, what she finds out about herself will make you cry and laugh—and feel very hungry.” Woman’s Day magazine

“Martin, a food writer and blogger, spent 195 weeks cooking meals from every country of the world. But the most memorable moments in this spirited narrative take place in the many weeks before those 195, and they have surprisingly little to do with food…There is plenty here to engross memoir lovers.” Publishers Weekly

“Noted for her creative blog on world cooking, Martin had an extraordinary youth…Martin learned how to cope with ever-changing circumstances and to cook, even while her brother succumbed to tragically self-destructive behaviors. Martin peppers this memoir with recipes reflective of her life’s circumstances of the moment, from stuffed artichokes to apple pie. Her assured prose endows this narrative of an atypical upbringing with both immediacy and poignancy.” Booklist

“Poignant, heartwarming, and generously filled with delicious recipes.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Woman’s Day Magazine Pick
  • Goodreads Readers’ Choice
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