Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar. However, her parents' unhappy marriage wasn't sweet at all and they were too preoccupied with themselves to notice its effects on their children. Telling her own story, interspersed with recipes, Kate Moses writes about her parents in a compassionate and sometimes humorous way. Her mother was a frustrated artist who instructed her three children to refer to her in public as "the babysitter." Her father was aloof and prone to blasts of negative comments directed at his daughter. Kate looked for comfort in the imaginary worlds of books and found refuge in the kitchen, where she taught herself to bake.
I enjoyed this book. Moses' parents are pretty awful, although she is able to see some of the humor in some of the situations. The author does a good job of drawing into her childhood and later years, even though the book does unravel a bit towards the end. Each chapter does end with a great-sounding recipe (although I did not make anything from this book --- I already have binders filled with dessert recipes), so that's an added bonus.
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