Poor Man's Feast
Elissa Altman, Eleanor AnstrutherThe James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 355 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Last night, we made the pie of grief.
It only took three hours.
I’m not much for long, drawn out cooking processes anymore. Unless the weather is terrible (which it is today) or I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about something (like the time I was obsessing over making cassoulet fr...
is cruelty addictive?
A version of this essay was published last year when it became abundantly clear that we were all living in a very different kind of world. I am publishing another take on it because, with every passing day, our world has become more and mor...
losing my religion
Photo by Tim Hüfner on Unsplash
I am writing this from a residency at Barnswallow in Rockport, Maine; the apartment I am in overlooks the harbor which, in almost any light, looks like a Wyeth painting (symmetry: Wyeth lived and worked not...
he would have liked my house.
He really would have.
When Susan and I moved here in 2004, the house had been recently emptied of masses of Danish modern furniture — not the knock-offs that we see today online — collected over the years by its original owners, one...
on the birthday of the world
Susan and I are heading back to Maine this weekend, which coincides with the beginning of the Days of Awe. I was raised in a secular home, and with every passing year, my devotion, such as it is, shifts more deeply to places of silence and...
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Elissa Altman is the award-winning author of PERMISSION: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create (GODINE), and memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man's Feast. Her new book, WHERE YOU USED TO BE, is forthcoming from Godine.
A PERFECT EXPLANATION (Salt Books) A MEMOIR IN 65 POSTCARDS & THE RECOVERY DIARIES (Troubador) IN JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS (Troubador) FALLOUT. Rep'd by Jenny Savill ANA
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