The Plated Heart"Diane Goodman explores the competing demands of nourishment and desire and the meanings that cravings take in modern culture: a chef imagines an affair with a grocery store manager; a mute Islamic man lovingly feeds the construction crew on the site of a luxury hotel, a daughter suffers her mother's pain while cooking for an impossible client. In her second collection of stories published by Carnegie Mellon Press, Goodman invites us into the workplace of waiters, cooks, caterers and suppliers in Miami Beach and its environs, exposing the ways invisible lives fulfill the appetites of those they serve."--BOOK JACKET. |
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