This week we are joined by James Bears Award Winner Tarajia Morrell!In this episode, Tarajia sits down with Carly and Emily to discuss her latest memoir, Desire Feeds the Feast, exploring how storytelling provided clarity through life’s transitions and early motherhood.
This week we are joined by Tarajia Morrell! Tarajia Morrell is a native New Yorker who grew up at the table. Her food and wine reporting and essays have appeared in WSJ. Magazine, T Magazine, Food & Wine, Departures, and Cherry Bombe, among other publications. Morrell is the co-author of James Beard Award-winner Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More, with Fatima Ali. Her memoir, Desire Feeds the Feast is out now.
In this episode, Tarajia sits down with Carly and Emily to discuss her latest memoir, Desire Feeds the Feast, exploring how storytelling provided clarity through life’s transitions and early motherhood. She reflects on her childhood inside a rent-stabilized Manhattan apartment steeped in her family's culinary and wine pursuits, her deep craving for rural freedom during escapes upstate, and her view of hospitality as an art form rooted in generous care. The conversation covers her experiences feeling like an outsider during her school years, facing the realities of single parenting, discovering solidarity among fellow moms.
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