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"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;
its 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