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A review by kristidurbs
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes by Shauna Niequist
3.0
Bread & Wine is a meditation about how our lives are punctuated by meals, how they mark defining moments, and bring about connection to other people. For the author, she recounts meals around joys of vacationing at the beach or sitting along the Seine in Paris, celebrating birthdays and babies. Yet food is important, for good or bad, also in the context of trials and sorrow, through miscarriages and illness and insecurities.
A big part of this book is devoted to Niequist's own struggles with fertility and parenting, which wasn't what I expected. There is also no seeming coherence whatsoever to the chapter organization. The recipes peppered throughout are ones I am interested in trying, but there was likewise no rhyme or reason to their placement in the book. There is also no chronological order -- sometimes, the writer talks about being recently married, other times of the birth of her second son, and then back again to being unable to conceive that second son.
The utter lack of chronology in her story-telling and coherence are my biggest complaints. Otherwise, this is an enjoyable, poignant read about food and faith and the things that truly matter in life.
A big part of this book is devoted to Niequist's own struggles with fertility and parenting, which wasn't what I expected. There is also no seeming coherence whatsoever to the chapter organization. The recipes peppered throughout are ones I am interested in trying, but there was likewise no rhyme or reason to their placement in the book. There is also no chronological order -- sometimes, the writer talks about being recently married, other times of the birth of her second son, and then back again to being unable to conceive that second son.
The utter lack of chronology in her story-telling and coherence are my biggest complaints. Otherwise, this is an enjoyable, poignant read about food and faith and the things that truly matter in life.