Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen

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Apron Anxiety is the hilarious and heartfelt memoir of quintessential city girl Alyssa Shelasky and her crazy, complicated love affair with...the kitchen. "Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book." --Gael Greene, creator of Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable- Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess Apron Anxiety is the hilarious and heartfelt memoir of quintessential city girl Alyssa Shelasky and her crazy, complicated love affair with...the kitchen. Three months into a relationship with her TV-chef crush, celebrity journalist Alyssa Shelasky left her highly social life in New York City to live with him in D.C. But what followed was no fairy tale- Chef hours are tough on a relationship. Surrounded by foodies yet unable to make a cup of tea, she was displaced and discouraged. Motivated at first by self-preservation rather than culinary passion, Shelasky embarked on a journey to master the kitchen, and she created the blog Apron Anxiety (ApronAnxiety.com) to share her stories. This is a memoir (with recipes) about learning to cook, the ups and downs of love, and entering the world of food full throttle. Readers will delight in her infectious voice as she dishes on everything from the sexy chef scene to the unexpected inner calm of tying on an apron.

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Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book.
GAELGREENE, creator of Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess

I loved this book. Its partly a cautionary tale about getting involved with young career-driven men and a love story about a woman and the city she loves and leaves and loves again. And finally, its about good friends, a loving family, and the importance and good fortune Alyssa has for having both. Oh, and theres a great recipe for mac and cheese.
JOHN DELUCIE, chef/proprietor The Lion, Crown restaurants, and author of The Hunger: A Memoir of an Accidental Chef

Part memoir, part cookbook, Alyssas writing is honest, witty, and disarminga compelling journey of a girl becoming her own woman. Though she experiences love and loss, she finds her sweetest days where she least expects itwithin herself in the kitchen.With that, Alyssa encourages even the most kitchen phobic to turn on the oven.
DANYELLE FREEMAN, founder of RestaurantGirl.comand author of Try This: Traveling the Globe Without Leaving the Table

Shelasky's memoir is a zesty read about dating, family, and self-discovery.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Amusing, compassionate story of love among the pots and pans."
KIRKUS REVIEWS

Shelaskys energetic memoir looks at her experiences as celebrity journalist turned food blogger and the relationships that sparked her passion for cooking Shelasky is candid about her misadventures and, in a charming touch, includes related recipes at the close of each chapter.
BOOKLIST

Alyssa Shelaskys unpretentious prose leaves us hungry for more. DAILY CANDY

Heres your summer racy read with plenty of juicy gossip to keep a foodies interest.
CHARLESTON POST & COURIER

Author Bio

ALYSSA SHELASKY is the New York editor of Grub Street at New York magazine, as well as the creator of the blog Apron Anxiety (ApronAnxiety.com). She has written for numerous publications including People, Us Weekly, Hamptons Style, Gotham, Self, Blackbook, TV Guide, The New York Post, New York magazine, CBS's Watch magazine, and Glamour magazine.