Consuming Passions: A

In addition to being an acclaimed novelist, Michael Lee West is a bona fide foodie. Writing with the flair and color of her highly praised novels, she lends her warm, distinctive humor and often hilarious insights to stories about her trials and tribulations as a southern woman who became an accidental gourmet. With a jambalaya of tales and treasured family recipes as entertaining as the prose, this book marries West's ever-increasing fan base to those who devour the works of Laurie Colwin, Fannie Flagg and Rebecca Wells.