Cooking for Her Eyes
Author: Susan Uehara Rakstang
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Published: 2020-04-29
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ISBN-13: 9780578672779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Rakstang recalls her idyllic life as a child of Japanese American parents and her mother's cooking lessons of delicious tastes, exquisite fragrances, and the visual art of preparing food, through her fast-paced, frenzied years in battle with time juggling her responsibilities as a wife, mother of two children, and working outside the home as an architect--a pioneering path not often pursued by women in the mid-1970s. After retirement, life suddenly takes a dark turn when her mother has a stroke, and her friend Margaret, a pastry chef, receives a terrifying diagnosis of stage-four cancer of her tongue. With both women's lives hanging perilously in the balance, she spends her days and evenings alternately tending to each of them. Learning Margaret's cancer treatment will cause horrific pain and temporary loss of taste, Susan develops a pureed food preparation technique for her friend's meals, and cooks for Margaret's eyes.