Nina Killham

  

"Wickedly funny... an expansive satire of the ways we have become pre- occupied with food."

- New York Times

"This debut black comedy... is not only delicious; it's simultaneously rare and well done."

- Glamour

"Nina Killham's painfully funny and disturbing first novel mercilessly harpoons foodies, gourmands, health freaks, dieters, and food writers with great style and deadly accuracy. How to Cook a Tart is gastro-porn as if Julia Childs and William Burroughs had a bastard child. Dysfunctional family melodrama, biting satire, scathing indictment, and a call to the barricades, How to Cook a Tart takes no prisoners." 

- Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour

 

"There is of course, amid all the laughter, a serious point here. Sex indeed is too much with us, in too public and too cynically commercial ways, and a bit of toning down indeed is in order. Swearing it off completely may not be the answer, but in an age where it all hangs out, a little retinence would be nice. Killham makes the point deftly in this very funny, very clever, very adult novel." 

- Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post, on Mounting Desire