Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook

Bursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir blends comics with satirical recipes to...
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Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook by Hayden, Jennifer

Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook

$29.81

Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook

$29.81
Author: Jennifer Hayden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Bursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir blends comics with satirical recipes to explore the intersections of food, feminism, frustration, and family.

Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. She's not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us...she does it anyway.

Why is that? Where did these expectations come from? What happens if you don't live up to the ideal of the perfect wife/mother/chef? And would someone please open a window before the fire department comes?

Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook is an accidental memoir from a woman whose comics earn rave reviews around the world but whose meals earn shrugs around the dinner table.

Marinating in an unconventional and aromatic blend of formats, Hayden traces the nuances of her complicated relationship to food. Anecdotal comics alternate with wryly ironic "recipes," peppered with oven fires, explosions, prayers, and incantations. Along the way, all the salty judgments and bitter frustrations just might caramelize into some real wisdom and self-acceptance. In any case, it's all hand-painted in mouth-watering color as a tribute to Hayden's love of cookbooks...or at least of the illustrations inside them.

Author: Jennifer Hayden
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.40h x 6.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781603095679


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2025

About the Author
Jennifer Hayden is the author and artist of the Eisner-nominated breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits, which has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and French. The French edition, Nénés Chéris, was short-listed for Elle France's 2022 comics grand prize. Hayden's first collection, Underwire, was published in The Best American Comics 2013. She draws and cooks dinner in the woods of New Jersey and plans to use the proceeds of this book to hire a personal chef.

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