EPISODE · Jan 30, 2024 · 30 MIN
Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul by Sylvie Bigar
from Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir · host Rafaela O'Reilly
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/728463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul Author: Sylvie Bigar Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern French countryside, this honest and poignant memoir conveys hunger for authentic food and a universal hunger for home. In Cassoulet Confessions, Sylvie travels across the Atlantic from her home in New York to the origin of cassoulet—the Occitanie region of Southern France. There she immerses herself in all things cassoulet: the quintessential historic meat and bean stew. From her first spoonful, she is transported back to her dramatic childhood in Geneva, Switzerland, and finds herself journeying through an unexpected rabbit hole of memories. Not only does she discover the deeper meanings of her ancestral French cuisine, but she is ultimately transformed by having to face her unsettling, complex family history. Sylvie's simple but poetic prose immerses us in her story: we smell the simmering aromas of French kitchens, empathize with her family dilemmas, and experience her internal struggle to understand and ultimately accept herself.
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