Where Theres Smoke, Theres Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook
$36.69
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2025
Summary
Bursting with color, flavor, and messy emotions, this unprecedented graphic memoir and “anti-cookbook” 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 someo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603095679 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1603095675 |
| Author: | Jennifer Hayden |
| Publisher: | Top Shelf Productions |
| Imprint: | Top Shelf Productions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 168mm |
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Critics Review
“Charismatic, disarming, and delightfully candid. This book is a beautiful love letter to every ruined dinner and every imperfect cook!” — Sarah Becan (Let’s Make Ramen!)
“For those of us who understand The Joy of NOT Cooking, this graphic ‘cookbook’ is hysterical all the way through.” — Caron Wendell, owner of Lucy’s Kitchen & Market and founder of restaurant One53
About The Author
Jennifer Hayden
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, Nenes Cheris, 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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