Kitchens of the Great Midwest

By J. Ryan Stradal

This is another book I picked up solely based on the cover. It's so beautiful and inviting, and clearly says: this is about women and food. In fact, I was a bit disappointed when I found out the author is not a woman. But my disappointment dissolved as I kept reading. Each chapter is told from someone else's perspective. Sometimes years apart. But there are a couple of common threads: one is food, of course, and the other is a character, Eva, whose story this is after all. Though each chapter has its own hero. In the last chapter, most of them come together, sort of. [312 pp.]

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