Everything Is Under Control - A Memoir with Recipes

One of Esquire''s Best Cookbooks of 2020 and one of The Washington Post''s Best Food Books of 2020

"In epigrammatic, nearly poetic diction, Grant . . . reminds us of how transformative the junctures where food and life collide can be." --The New York Times Book Review

-What a beautiful, rich, and poetic memoir this is . . . Like the best chefs, Phyllis Grant knows how to make a masterpiece from a few simple ingredients: truth, taste, poignancy, and love.--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat, Pray, Love

Phyllis Grant-s Everything Is Under Control is a memoir about appetite as it comes, goes, and refocuses its object of desire. Grant-s story follows the sometimes smooth, sometimes jagged, always revealing contours of her life: from her days as a dancer struggling to find her place at Julliard, to her experiences in and out of four-star kitchens in New York City, to falling in love