Dirty Sugar Cookies:
Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste
A gustatory memoir with bonus recipes.
When I was little more than a toddler, my grandmother tried to trick me into eating by dividing my body into various “holes” situated along various abdominal checkpoints, far from an actual orifice…
“Ayun Halliday has an irreverent (and almost ADHD influenced) take on almost everything, including food. And she comes to food writing not from the rarefied place of three or four star kitchens but by getting excited about sharing her love of mochi with two kids or how pancakes really were better post-coitus.”
–Martha Burzynski, Gothamist
Personally, I find hearing about foreign foods far more enjoyable than looking at vacation photographs, even my own…
“Dirty Sugar Cookies clearly elucidates Halliday’s love of food, though her duties as a mother of two and writer preclude hardcore food-snobbery—there just isn’t enough time. So the book serves as a memoir of a sort of half-assed epicure, a person who has expansive tastes, but has to make do with the time she has—just like 99 percent of the population.”
–Kyle Ryan, The Onion
It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a true post-coital breakfast. Oh, I have sex, and then eventually granola, but it’s not the same…
“In a fun, goofy tour through her culinary upbringing, Halliday tries to figure out, more or less, how she went from the pickiest of little girl eaters to an omnivorous globetrotter with a finicky little girl of her own.”
–Martha Bayne, The Chicago Reader
