{"product_id":"home-made-a-story-of-grief-groceries-showing-up-and-what-we-make-when-we-make-dinner-9780525512455b","title":"Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up - and What We Make When We Make Dinner","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn “extraordinary” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman’s attempt to answer the essential question \u003ci\u003eWho are we to one another?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLiz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn’t know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off her father’s long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries,” Liz writes, “and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that’s why, when we don’t know what else to do, we feed our neighbors.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCapturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dial Press Trade Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42995967230032,"sku":"9780525512455B","price":14.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/home-made-a-story-of-grief-groceries-showing-up-and-what-we-make-when-we-make-dinner-9780525512455b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}