For the December 2025 / January 2026 edition I chose the memoir Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (April 2024)
Although I've known Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poetry for some time and enjoyed reading it, I was not familiar with her essays until I saw this collection. After scanning the first few chapters, I decided to select this for our club. It is a memoir centered on 40 different kinds of food that evoke recollections of childhood, family, travels, and more.
From the publisher:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances... From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries between heritage and memory.
I hope the lyrical essays will be a stimulating read and provide culinary inspiration. Should you be curious about her poetry, there is a selection on this page of the Poetry Foundation website
The poem Baked Goods resonates particularly. Here are a few lines:
Too hot to bake this morning but
blueberries begged me to fold them
into moist muffins. Sticks of rhubarb
plotted a whole pie.
I hope you will enjoy Nezhukumatathil's style and will find inspiration among the many foods she writes about in the book.
Simona, briciole
Deadline for contributing your post: Saturday, January 31, 2026.
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