Elissa Altman is the author of the James Beard Award-winning blog poormansfeast.com. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best, but learned over the years that she'd rather eat a "
perfectly poached egg on toast at home than a vertically-plated, pomegranate-glazed foie gras Napoleon in a fabulous new cash-only eatery on the same Gowanus side-street where my grandfather was mugged in 1967. Sometimes," says Altman, "hip food can be very tiring."
Poor Man's Feast tells Altman's tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity, with her delicious trademark blend of humor, love, and dedication to simplicity in life and, of course, in food.
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