My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) (edition 2012)

by Luisa Weiss

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The story of how one thoroughly confused, kitchen-mad perfectionist broke off her engagement to a handsome New Yorker, quit her dream job, and found her way to a new life, a new man, and a new home in Berlin -- one recipe at a time

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Title:	My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
Authors:	Luisa Weiss
Info:	Viking Adult (2012), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 320 pages
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The writing wasn't very tight, and there were a handful of typos, which I always find very distracting, yet I truly enjoyed this book. The author's search for her place in the world resonated very deeply with me, and her descriptions of Berlin made me want to pack up and move there ASAP. I haven't tried to make any of the recipes in the book, so I can't speak to their deliciousness or ease. They sounded rather tasty when I read through them, though. (

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blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |

Reasonably interesting, although I do admit to an inordinate fondness for books about food. Didn't feel compelled to rush out and make the recipes, however. (

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PattyLee | Dec 14, 2021 |

I really wish goodreads let you do half stars. At least for 3-1/2. I often wonder why there aren't more books out there about student exchange. This isn't that, but it is about someone who's pulled between different worlds (born in one country to parents from two different countries and who subsequently divorce), and figuring out where to make her home. It's a bit different than immigrant stories--some similar elements, but not the same.

And there's food. And recipes, for things I want to eat right now like yeasted plum cake and panade (though not necessarily in that order). I'm changing my rating to 4 stars. Though I really give it a 3.68.

Seems as if in this increasingly globalized world this story will be more and more familiar. I'm hoping people chime in with all sorts of recommendations for books about people living between countries... (

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giovannaz63 | Jan 18, 2021 |

I like The Wednesday Chef a lot, but I haven't been reading long enough to remember the whole story. This book was a nice summing up, as well as being many more things: cookbook, memoir, love story, coming-of-age. Maybe it's my age, but very much of it felt so familiar. Also, there are several delicious-sounding things in here that I want to cook. (

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beautifulshell | Aug 27, 2020 |

Erbsensuppe: German pea soup p. 146
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My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story With Recipes

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My Berlin Kitchen: Adventures in Love and Life

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2012-09-13

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Luisa Weiss

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Berlin, Germany

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The story of how one thoroughly confused, kitchen-mad perfectionist broke off her engagement to a handsome New Yorker, quit her dream job, and found her way to a new life, a new man, and a new home in Berlin -- one recipe at a time

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The Wednesday Chef cooks her heart out, finds her way home, and shares her recipes with us

Luisa Weiss was a toddler living in West German Berlin when her Italian mother and American father divorced, and she spent her subsequent childhood commuting back and forth between Boston and Berlin. Faced with such a peripatetic existence, the one place she could always look to for steadiness, comfort and a sense of home was the kitchen. This love of food carried over into her adulthood. She achieved success in New York as a cookbook editor and award-winning food blogger engaged to a wonderful guy, but as she chronicles in her new memoir MY BERLIN KITCHEN, sometimes what seems right can feel deeply wrong and you must turn your life upside down to find your way.

Luisa will seduce you with stories of foraging for plums in abandoned orchards in downtown Berlin, battling with white asparagus at the tail end of the season, orchestrating a three-family Thanksgiving dinner and mending her broken heart with batches of impossible German cookies. She will convince you that while Paris has its magic, for real inspiration in the kitchen, and in life, there is nothing like Berlin.

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