Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger Available Now
See more about Lisa’s debut memoir from Penguin Press below.
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12.21.2017 / Food&Wine Magazine
Dear Women: Own Your Stories
Acclaimed pastry chef Lisa Donovan details her experiences with sexual harassment, both in and outside of the kitchen, and calls upon men to stop looking the other way. "I refuse to be afraid to say these things out loud any longer," she writes.
Read the James Beard Award winning essay HERE.
02.01.2020 / Food&Wine Magazine
My Notebooks Tell the Story of How I Became a Chef
An award-winning pastry chef traces the arc of her career through her kitchen notebooks.
Read Essay HERE.
Recipes Included: Cast-Iron Cornmeal Cake with Buttermilk Cream /Buttermilk Cream / Sweet Potato Yeast Rolls / Buttermilk Panna Cotta / Dried Apple Hand Pies / Lisa Donovan’s Pie Dough
Winter 2017 / SFA’s Gravy Issue #66
The Feast of Saint Mary
At Nashville's panaderías, a pastry chef finds meaning beyond bolillos
Accompanying Photo Essay by Andrea Behrends.
Read Full Essay HERE.
12.17.2018 / Washington Post
The Mystery of Chess Pie
“I decided that the South was probably the only place where I could have the conversation I was looking for. The South operates on a different wavelength. Take Phila and Martha making their moves in the segregated 1950s. Many of us are subversive punks. A breed of truth-seekers with their hands in the dirt, digging until we find what is real. That is the South you may not know. But you should.”
Read full article HERE.
Recipes Included:
“To give a book life, a wise writer understands her myths must die. This book's heart is its truth, one woman's unyielding look in the mirror and well beyond it. Lisa's ultimate embrace of the human who stares back at her is a kind of freedom for us all.” —Osayi Endolyn, James Beard Award-winning writer
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