As a mother, Emily Franklin has made a point of two things: taking the time to talk and listen with her kids, and sharing new and interesting foods with them. Over the course of a year, she introduces her children to new dishes, some exotic, some thrown together with whatever she has in her cabinets, to varying degrees of success. Undaunted by failure ("This tastes like sand "), Emily writes with great humor about the highs and lows of parenting in the kitchen, and shows how our lives and memories are inextricably linked to food. Too Many Cooks is Franklin's comedic and wise memoir of life in the family kitchen. Peppered in equal parts with how-I-did-it advice on parenting (one son even gobbles fava beans when she labels them "Cajun") and flexible, mouthwatering recipes (salmon can sit in Impromptu Asian Marinade overnight, for thirty minutes, or no time at all), it's a deliciously entertaining, and wonderfully inspiring, book about the joys, anxieties, and delightful surprises to be found around the dinner table.