Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
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| name = Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
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| author = Kate Christensen
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| country = USA
| language = English
| genre = Memoir, Food writing
| published = 2013 (Doubleday)
| media_type = Print (Hardback)
| pages = 353
| isbn = 9780385536264
| oclc = 823860695
}}{{Short description|2013 memoir by Kate Christensen}}
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites is a 2013 memoir by Kate Christensen from when she was a girl growing up in Berkeley, California and Tempe, Arizona in the 1960s, to Paris, Oregon, Iowa, and New York City to the present-day in Maine, New England.
Reception
The New York Journal of Books, in a review of Blue Plate Special, called it "remarkable" and compared it to the writings of Laurie Colwin: "If Colwin is the All American Girl Cook, Ms. Christensen is more wild, plunging into worldly episodes from Bedouins baking dough disks on hot rocks for breakfast in the desert to daylong meals during a cold Maine winter."{{cite web |url=http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/blue-plate-special-autobiography-my-appetites |title=Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites |author=Sally D. Ketchum |website=nyjournalofbooks.com |accessdate=February 9, 2017}} The New York Times found it "a paean to cooking and food, from the homey to the haute" and "a toothsome blend of personal and social history."{{cite news |last=Meisel |first=Abigail |date=August 23, 2013 |title=Sunday Book Review: Chronicle: Memoirs by Women 'Blue Plate Special,' by Kate Christensen, and More |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/books/review/blue-plate-special-by-kate-christensen-and-more.html |newspaper=New York Times |accessdate=February 9, 2017}}
Blue Plate Special has also been reviewed by
Publishers Weekly,{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0385536264 |title=Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites |date=June 10, 2013 |quote=unpretentious memoir. |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz LLC|accessdate=February 9, 2017}} Kirkus Reviews,{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-christensen/blue-plate-special-an-autobiography/ |title=Blue Plate Special (starred review) |date=April 29, 2013 |quote=A novelist’s deliciously engrossing exploration of her life through the two major passions that have defined it: food and writing. |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |accessdate=February 9, 2017}} The Wall Street Journal,{{cite news |last=Watman |first=Max |date=July 31, 2013 |title=A Meal of One's Own |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324354704578636141281560474 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |accessdate=February 9, 2017}} Library Journal,{{cite web |url=https://catalog.wccls.org/Mobile/BakerAndTaylor/Review?ISBN=9780385536264&UPC=&position=3 |title=Blue plate special: an autobiography of my appetites: Reviews |quote= Pitched to fans of Ruth Reichl and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter. |website=catalog.wccls.org |accessdate=February 9, 2017}} Booklist,{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/1894342/Reviews#tabnav |title=Blue plate special : an autobiography of my appetites |quote=Christensen writes with savory, home-cooked clarity |website=Buffalo and Erie County Public Library |accessdate=February 9, 2017}} and The Christian Science Monitor.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Elizabeth A. |date=July 24, 2013 |title=Blue Plate Special |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2013/0724/Blue-Plate-Special |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |accessdate=February 9, 2017}}
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