Fair Shares for All: A Memoir of Family and Food
 

Fair Shares for All: A Memoir of Family and Food

by John Haney

In this beautifully written, vividly rendered memoir, John Haney, Gourmet magazine’s copy chief, describes his family’s day-to-day struggles, from the twilight of Queen Victoria’s reign to the dawn of the third millennium, in London’s least affluent working-class enclaves and suburbs, including a place called the Isle of Dogs–and reflects on how his family’s... (read more)

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Kind of aimless, and the last third of the book felt more like a therapy session than a memoir.

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