Fechtor, Jessica

The author describes suffering a brain aneurysm and nearly dying, then having multiple brain surgeries that deformed her skull, and losing her sense of smell and the sight in one eye. Discusses how she used her love of cooking to help her recover and create a normal life once again. Features twenty-seven recipes that helped the author on her road to recovery.

"M.F.K. Fisher meets Brain on Fire in this exquisite memoir of a 28-year-old food blogger who cooks her way back to health after a near-fatal aneurysm Jessica Fechtor was on top of the world: a Harvard graduate student, happily married, and thinking about starting a family. Then, while attending an academic conference, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. Multiple surgeries left her skull.