Crave : a memoir of food and longing

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Label

Crave : a memoir of food and longing

Title remainder

a memoir of food and longing

Statement of responsibility

Christine O'Brien

Title variation

Memoir of food and longing

Creator

• O'Brien, Christine Scherick

Author

• O'Brien, Christine Scherick

Subject

• Adult children of divorced parents -- United States -- Biography
• Biography
• California -- Social life and customs
• Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.)
• Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.)
• Families
• Manners and customs
• Mothers and daughters
• Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
• Natural foods
• 1900-1999
• New York (State) -- New York Metropolitan Area
• New York Metropolitan Area -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• O'Brien, Christine Scherick -- Family
• Romann, Carol Ruth
• Scherick, Edgar J
• Scherick, Edgar J. -- Family
• Television producers and directors
• Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
• United States
• Natural foods -- United States
• Adult children of divorced parents

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive father, a beautiful, but damaged, mother and three brothers in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building. Christine's father was Ed Scherick, the ABC television executive and film producer who created ABC's Wide World of Sports as well as classic films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Heartbreak Kid. Her mother, Carol, was raised on a farm in Missouri. With chestnut hair and the all-American good looks that won her the title of Miss Missouri and a finalist place in The Miss America Contest she looked to be the perfect wife and mother. But, Carol had a craving that was almost impossible to fill. Seriously injured in a farming accident when she was a girl, she craved health even though doctors told her that she was perfectly fine. Setting out on a journey through the quacks of the East Coast, she began seeing a doctor who prescribed "The Program" as a way to health for her and her family. At first she ate nothing but raw liver and drank shakes made with fresh yeast. Then it was blended salads, the forerunner of the smoothie. And that was all she let her family eat. This well-meant tyranny of the dinner table led Christine to her own cravings for family, for food and for the words to tell the story of her hunger. Crave is that story--the chronicle of a writer's painful and ultimately satisfying awakening."--Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.874/3

Index

no index present

LC call number

CT275.O227

LC item number

A3 2018

Literary form

non fiction