"Among the handful of American food writers with both real wit and truth in their bag, New York Times writer Kim Severson stands out as the new standard for delicious literacy." — Mario Batali
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“One of our favorite food memoirs of the year was Kim Severson’s Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life (Riverhead), which PW’s starred review called a “‘rank confessional memoir.’
The Today Show’s Ann Curry calls Kim “a delicious writer” and says Spoon Fed is “lovely.”