All the Wild Hungers

A “lovely” memoir of caring for a mother with cancer, reflecting on our appetites for food and for life ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ). When her mother is diagnosed with a rare cancer, Karen Babine—cook, collector of vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt—can’t help but wonder:  feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?  And so she commits to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving into the unfamiliar world of bone brot