Tasting Home

London Book Festival: First Place Autobiography, December 2013
Independent Publishers: Bronze Award, May 2013
New York Book Festival: Honorable Mention, June 2014

Tasting Home is the history of a woman’s emotional education, the romantic tale of a marriage between a straight woman and a gay man, and an exploration of the ways that cooking can lay the groundwork for personal healing, intimate relation, and political community. Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped author Judith Newton’s life, Tasting Home takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the cuisines, cultural spirit, and politics of the 1940s through 2011, complete with recipes.

Author: Judith Newton

Publication Date: March 1, 2013

Description

London Book Festival: First Place Autobiography, December 2013
Independent Publishers: Bronze Award, May 2013
Hollywood Book Festival: Honorable Mention, July 2013
Reader’s Favorite: Finalist, July 2013
Southern California Book Festival: Honorable Mention, September 2013
National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist, May 2014
ForeWord Book of the Year Awards: Finalist, May 2014
San Francisco Book Festival: Honorable Mention, May 2014
New York Book Festival: Honorable Mention, June 2014

“In this captivating memoir, Newton draws the reader into a world where major events are brought to life with poignant food memories. . . . Each vignette is pitch-perfect, lively, and engaging, striking a delicate balance between self-disclosure and universal themes of acceptance, love, community-building, and political engagement.”
-Janet A. Flammang, author of The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society

“Tasting Home is more than a food memoir. Influenced by the civil rights struggle, the women’s movement, and the AIDS epidemic, it is an odyssey of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth. Cooking serves as a powerful metaphor for the difficulties and pleasures of relations among mothers and daughters; husbands and wives; gays and heterosexuals; and racial-ethnic groups. Tasting Home, like a grand meal, is a resounding success.”
-Belinda Robnett, author of How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.

“This is a baby-boomer’s dream: a book full of anecdotes about coming of age in during the sexual revolution of the sixties – with recipes! . . . an ingeniously conceived, tightly written, and beautifully packaged memoir, a vibrant portrait of the American feminine cultural experience from the 1950s forward.”
-Independent Publisher

About the Author

Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis. She is the author and co-editor of five works of non fiction on nineteenth-century British women writers, feminist criticism, women’s history, and men’s movements. Her most current work has appeared in The Redwood Coast Review and poetalk. She lives in the East Bay of California.