A Homemade Life

Narrator Mia Barron delivers this charming entrÄe from the writer of the food blog "Orangette." In a solid, nuanced performance, Barron captures Molly Wizenberg's wistfulness as she remembers her father, whom she lost to cancer, and how he and her mother taught her about food--its great comfort and its excitement. With that formative experience it's not surprising that as a young adult she was seduced away from her graduate studies in Paris by the city's culinary delights. Later, she came back home to help care for her dad and took a friend's suggestion to begin writing a blog. The story of how this choice led her to find her true passion--food writing--AND her true love--a fellow foodie--is deliciously served up in Barron's honeyed delivery. D.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine