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Bob Shacochis, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, and National Book Award winning-author of such books as Swimming in the Volcano, Easy in the Islands, and The Next New World, hones his nonfiction skills in this tour de force romp through the worlds of eating and eroticism. Domesticity is an irreverent exploration of the sweet and sour evolution of the enduring romance between author and lover. In this relationship, Shacochis stays at home and cooks, all the while reflecting on the ups and downs of a romantic partnership, the connection between heart and stomach, and how the crazed lust of youth evolves into inevitably settling down and, well, simply making dinner.
Shacochis's delectable musings on monogamy, emotional and physical separations, dogs, career changes, the stress of the holidays, the aesthetics of food, moving, sex and seafood, friendships, writings and the angst over who is going to do the dishes are deftly folded into seventy-five recipes, half of them of the author's own creation. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is Shacochis's celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is a celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point, a "prose stew" of audacious candor, a culinary valentine for lovers of literature.
Shacochis's delectable musings on monogamy, emotional and physical separations, dogs, career changes, the stress of the holidays, the aesthetics of food, moving, sex and seafood, friendships, writings and the angst over who is going to do the dishes are deftly folded into seventy-five recipes, half of them of the author's own creation. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is Shacochis's celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is a celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point, a "prose stew" of audacious candor, a culinary valentine for lovers of literature.
Price: $14.99
Pages: 368
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Trinity University Press
Publication Date:
12 November 2013
ISBN: 9781595341907
Format: eBook
“Delicious. . . . Domesticity nourishes the senses and the soul.” — New York Times Book Review
“Domesticity—rightly subtitled A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love—is about the voluptuous pleasures of cooking for, and eating with, someone you love, about making meals a participatory rather than spectator sport. It is about excess and obsession . . . Shacochis wants to get back to the earth, or, in his particular case, the sea, establish an intimate relationship with whatever's freshest or indigenous to the region, and then devour it.” — Los Angeles Times
“The highly personal essays, each of which ends with a few recipes, are rooted in his role as head chef in his household, which he has shared in curmudgeonly but apparently unquestioned devotion with his partner, Miss F, for 20 years, much of that time in Florida. He follows his nose to investigate such ‘gastronomic riddles’ as the nomenclature of pâtes and terrines and the aphrodisiac reputations of various foods, the latter in the nearly perfect essay ‘Wanton Soup.’ He takes up arms, more than once, against ‘bores and bastards’ and, in the food world especially, ‘any bourgeois shithead who pretends he or she is the guardian of high culture.’ As seen on these pages, Shacochis is literate, tough, romantic and the master of his kitchen.” — Publishers Weekly
“His vibrant, offbeat, and sensual essays on the importance of food in the daily affairs of interesting, idiosyncratic men and women who know their way around kitchens combine an enthusiastic storyteller’s love of narrative with an enthusiastic cook's love of fresh ingredients . . . Shacochis uses the raw materials of his longstanding, nutritionally balanced relationship with the coyly named ‘Miss F’ to concoct appealing philosophical riffs, capped with serious recipes (for pheasant, for roast suckling pig, for West Indian pepper pot) . . . Shacochis cooks his columns just right and serves them salted and peppered, to taste.” — Entertainment Weekly
“By turns doting, curative, seductive. . . . Its celebration of the cook's greatest need—the significant eater—rings sweetly true.” — Washington Post
“Domesticity—rightly subtitled A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love—is about the voluptuous pleasures of cooking for, and eating with, someone you love, about making meals a participatory rather than spectator sport. It is about excess and obsession . . . Shacochis wants to get back to the earth, or, in his particular case, the sea, establish an intimate relationship with whatever's freshest or indigenous to the region, and then devour it.” — Los Angeles Times
“The highly personal essays, each of which ends with a few recipes, are rooted in his role as head chef in his household, which he has shared in curmudgeonly but apparently unquestioned devotion with his partner, Miss F, for 20 years, much of that time in Florida. He follows his nose to investigate such ‘gastronomic riddles’ as the nomenclature of pâtes and terrines and the aphrodisiac reputations of various foods, the latter in the nearly perfect essay ‘Wanton Soup.’ He takes up arms, more than once, against ‘bores and bastards’ and, in the food world especially, ‘any bourgeois shithead who pretends he or she is the guardian of high culture.’ As seen on these pages, Shacochis is literate, tough, romantic and the master of his kitchen.” — Publishers Weekly
“His vibrant, offbeat, and sensual essays on the importance of food in the daily affairs of interesting, idiosyncratic men and women who know their way around kitchens combine an enthusiastic storyteller’s love of narrative with an enthusiastic cook's love of fresh ingredients . . . Shacochis uses the raw materials of his longstanding, nutritionally balanced relationship with the coyly named ‘Miss F’ to concoct appealing philosophical riffs, capped with serious recipes (for pheasant, for roast suckling pig, for West Indian pepper pot) . . . Shacochis cooks his columns just right and serves them salted and peppered, to taste.” — Entertainment Weekly
“By turns doting, curative, seductive. . . . Its celebration of the cook's greatest need—the significant eater—rings sweetly true.” — Washington Post
Bob Shacochis' first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, won the National Book Award for First Fiction in 1985, and his second collection, The Next New World, was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1989. Bob Shacochis is a former columnist for Gentleman’s Quarterly and a contributing editor for both Outside and Harper’s. Swimming in the Volcano, the first book in a projected trilogy, was a 1993 National Book Award Finalist. The Immaculate Invasion, a chronicle of the 1994 military intervention in Haiti, was a finalist for The New Yorker Magazine Award for best nonfiction of 1999. He has also received a James Michener Fellowship and a grant from the NEA. Shacochis is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.