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A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s...

In this tell-all memoir, a woman in her eighties, born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, unveils her intimate self-transformations in the course of nine decades. Determined at an early age to prove herself a free spirit in a male-dominated world, as a young adult Kahane went on the road, hitchhiking her way into and out of risky adventures and romantic affairs, ceaselessly chasing new experiences. But what started out as a “road book” takes a different turn in midlife when she became a feminist professor, mother, and wife.

Avec une plume aussi bien trempée que son caractère, Nathalie Petrowski a toujours été un esprit libre. Dans La critique n'a jamais tué personne, elle nous livre, sans faux-fuyants et sans règlements de compte, ses mémoires de journaliste. Ceux d'une femme qui, du p'tit Simard à Marie-Mai, de René Lévesque à Manon Massé, du sexisme ordinaire à #metoo et du Jerrold au iPad, jette un regard passionné et critique sur la culture, le journalisme et ses enjeux.