Tarajia Morrel on Her Memoir "Desire Feeds the Feast"
What are you really hungry for?
This week we sit down with food writer Tarajia Morrell, author of Desire Feeds the Feast. Raised in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment by a domestic goddess of a mother and a wine-store visionary father, Tarajia learned early that a meal is a chance for pleasure, whether it's a perfect bagel with whitefish salad or a slow-cooked cassoulet. She tells us how she found her way from struggling actress to food writer, why she never writes about a restaurant she doesn't love, and how co-writing with Top Chef's Fatima Ali in the last weeks of Fatima's life taught her…
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