The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat

Without mantras or manifestos, 29 writers serve up sharp, sweet, and candid memories; salty irreverence; and delicious original recipes. Food is so much more than what we eat. The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage is an anthology of original essays about how we learn (and relearn) to eat, and how pivotal food is beyond the table.

With essays from:

- Keith Blanchard
- Max Brooks
- Melissa Clark
- Elizabeth Crane
- Aleksandra Crapanzano
- Gregory Dicum
- Elrena Evans
- Jeff Gordinier
- Caroline M. Grant
- Phyllis Grant
- Libby Gruner
- Lisa Catherine Harper
- Deborah Copaken Kogan and Paul Kogan
- Jen Larsen
- Edward Lewine
- Chris Malcomb
- Lisa McNamara
- Dani Klein Modisett
- Catherine Newman
- Thomas Peele
- Deesha Philyaw
- Neal Pollack
- Barbara Rushkoff
- Bethany Saltman
- K. G. Schneider
- Sarah Shey
- Stacie Stukin
- Karen Valby

Lisa Catherine Harper is the author of the award-winning memoir A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood (Bison Books/University of Nebraska, 2011). Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post; Babble; the San Francisco Chronicle; Glimmer Train; Gastronomica; Mama, PhD; Educating Tastes; and on PoetryFoundation.org. She has taught widely in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. You can find her online at www.LisaCatherineHarper.com.

Caroline M. Grant is Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Literary Mama and Associate Director of The Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is also coeditor of the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She has taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the San Francisco Art Institute, and her essays have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. For more information, visit her website, carolinemgrant.com.