Poor Man's Feast
Elissa AltmanThe James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 331 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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From the Archives: the things we almost do
Maybe this is something that comes with age: The compulsion to think about opportunities had and opportunities missed. Who would I have been had I gone down this path instead of that one? I am in a different place now, having lost my mother...
moving out of a NYC apartment after fifty years when you're all out of f**ks
I don’t like moving. In or out.
Don’t like it.
I don’t know anyone who does. I’m a Cancerian and so is Susan, and the idea of packing up and going somewhere else rattles me to the core. When my mother died at the end of October, she was...
my closet had a revolving door.
A few years before I met Susan, back in the days when I wore suits and heels and pearls, I was having dinner at Nobu in New York with a large group of women writers and editors.
It was the late nineties. The publisher of a well-known...
a weekend in my kitchen
From the sublime to the just plain good.
This week got away from me: I had a Wednesday afternoon lunch at Via Carota in Manhattan with some of my old friends and colleagues from my editorial days at HarperCollins (back in the nineties, whe...
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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.
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