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The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

English

By (author): Kim Foster

Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table - eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal complex reality when poverty and food intersect. Whether its heirloom vegetables or a block of neon yellow government cheese, food is both a basic necessity and nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities, our cultures, and our place in the world. The Meth Lunches gives a glimpse into the lives of people living in Fosters Las Vegas community - the grocery store cashier who feels safer surrounded by food after surviving a childhood of hunger; the inmate baking a birthday cake with coffee creamer and Sprite; the unhoused woman growing scallions in the slice of sunlight on her passenger seat. This is what food looks like in the lives of real people. The Meth Lunches reveals stories of dysfunction intertwined with hope, of the insurmountable obstacles and fierce determination all playing out on the plates of ordinary people. Its a bold invitation to pull up a chair and reconsider our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. Welcome to the table. See more
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 18 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 512g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: St Martin's Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781250278777

About Kim Foster

Kim is a James Beard award-winning food essayist cook wife mom foster-adoptive mom adoptee and mountain-biking widow. She writes about food as it intersects with addiction foster care adoption poverty and mental illness. Her work has been featured in publications like Bon Appetite Food 52 NPR's Desert Companion Magazine and multiple Best Food Writing yearly anthologies. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband David a Grammy-winning and two-time Tony-nominated circus and live entertainment producer their four kids and a menagerie of animals.

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