Errata for Breaking Bread
Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soul
A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what’s on our plates engages with what’s off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class.
Here, you’ll find Lily King on chocolate chip cookies, Richard Russo on beans, Jennifer Finney Boylan on homemade pizza, Susan Minot on the non-food food of her youth, and Richard Ford on why food doesn’t much interest him. Nancy Harmon Jenkins talks scallops, and Sandy Oliver the pleasures of being a locavore. Other essays address a beloved childhood food from Iran, the horror of starving in a prison camp, the urge to bake pot brownies for an ill friend, and the pleasure of buying a prized chocolate egg for a child.
Profits from this collection will benefit Blue Angel, a nonprofit combating food insecurity by delivering healthy food from local farmers to those in need.
“Taken together, the pieces strike a nice emotional balance . . . These intimate reflections hit the spot.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The writing displays more local color than a steamed lobster wearing wild blueberry bracelets, along with a mess of wistful nostalgia for any reader raised in Maine or New England in general.”
—Portland Press Herald
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- “Debra Spark’s Latest Book Project Rises to the Occasion,” Colby News, write-up
- “Best-Sellers: Big Truck Little Island, Breaking Bread,” Portland Press Herald, included in Longfellow Books non-fiction bestseller list
- “On the Foods We Bring From Deepest Childhood Into Grown-Up Life,” Literary Hub, excerpt
- “Four new books toast the tastes of Maine, the importance of a well made drink and our shared food history,” Portland Press Herald, write-up
- “Breaking Bread to Feed the Hungry on Blue Hill Peninsula,” edible Maine, excerpt and feature in summer 2022 print and online issues
- “The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, June 1-7,” Seven Days, announcement about Norwich Bookstore event
- “Food for Thought: A New Anthology Digs In,” Lilith, online Q&A
- “In a New Anthology, Heavy-Hitting Maine Writers Focus on Food,” DownEast, write-up and excerpt
- “An anthology of New England food writing, a tribute to a pathbreaking bookseller, and a new poetry,” Boston Globe, column
- “A new book features essays by Maine writers about the role food plays in our lives and memories,” MPBN/Maine Calling, interview with Debra Spark and Deborah Joy Corey
- “More Mainers are hungry, and Mainers are stepping up to help,” Q106.5, write-up of Breaking Bread with reference to The Ellsworth American Q&A
- “EP 14: Authors Shonna Humphrey and Tanya Whiton Join To Dish About Breaking Bread,” Live from the Book Shop: John Updike’s Ghost, podcast interview with contributors Tanya Whiton and Shonna Humphrey
- “The Zen of Fiddleheads | First Person,” Yankee Magazine, excerpt
- “Food for thought: Breaking Bread collects Maine writers’ related stories to support local hunger project,” The Ellsworth American, profile of Deborah Joy Corey and Breaking Bread
- “Reading recommendations for this spring,” WBUR, book included in spring reading recommendations roundup