Nancy Spiller comes to Hicklebee's to introduce her newest book, Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother's Recipe Box. After her mother's death in 2007, Nancy stumbled upon her mother's teaching credential buried in the midst of a recipe box and learned that she had taught for only one year before marrying and having four children. Compromise Cake explores Spiller's life in the suburbs of Northern California in the 1960s, learning to cook by her mother's side, as remembered through the recipe box, and touches on lineage, industrial changes, and the concept of compromise.
Nancy Spiller comes to Hicklebee's to introduce her newest book, Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother's Recipe Box. After her mother's death in 2007, Nancy stumbled upon her mother's teaching credential buried in the midst of a recipe box and learned that she had taught for only one year before marrying and having four children. Compromise Cake explores Spiller's life in the suburbs of Northern California in the 1960s, learning to cook by her mother's side, as remembered through the recipe box, and touches on lineage, industrial changes, and the concept of compromise.
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