# Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family - Hardcover

by **Debra Spark** (Editor), **Deborah Joy Corey** (Editor)

****Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us--mind, body, and soul****

A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, _Breaking Bread_ celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what's on our plates engages with what's off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class.

Here, you'll find Lily King on chocolate chip cookies, Richard Russo on beans, Jennifer Finney Boylan on homemade pizza, Susan Minot on the non-food food of her youth, and Richard Ford on why food doesn't much interest him. Nancy Harmon Jenkins talks scallops, and Sandy Oliver the pleasures of being a locavore. Other essays address a beloved childhood food from Iran, the horror of starving in a prison camp, the urge to bake pot brownies for an ill friend, and the pleasure of buying a prized chocolate egg for a child.

Profits from this collection will benefit Blue Angel, a nonprofit combating food insecurity by delivering healthy food from local farmers to those in need.

### Author Biography

**Debra Spark** is the author of 4 novels, 2 collections of short stories, and 2 books of essays on fiction writing, as well as numerous articles, stories, and book reviews in places like _Dwell,_ _Esquire, Food and Wine, Maine Home+Design,_ the _New York Times,_ the _San Francisco Chronicle,_ and _Yankee_. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

**Deborah Joy Corey** is the author of 2 novels, a memoir, and many essays and short stories that have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including _Ploughshares, The Agni Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Crescent Review, New Letters, Windsor Review_, and _Toronto Globe and Mail_. She is the recipient of numerous prizes, including Smithbooks/Canada Novel Award, Elle's Lettres Reader's Prize, and the Short Story Prize at Symphony Space. Deborah is the founder of Blue Angel, a hunger nonprofit, which delivers healthy produce from local farmers to those in need.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.34 x 8.9 x 6.06 IN

**Publication Date:** May 24, 2022

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