Let us eat cake: Adventures in food and friendship

by Sharon Boorstin

I'm about 1/4 through this book. It's a rather autobiographical story about a woman who grew up in the 50's ended up at Berkeley in the 60 ect. But it's framed from a female bonds through food perspective. Like Under the Tuscan Sun, it's story mixed with setting, with recipes thrown in. I find it to ring rather true. ..and for your amusement:
It wasn't until the second semester that I learned the second important thing about Mills: The real action was at UC Berkeley. (49)

Unlike Under the Tuscan Sun, which is for some reason classified next to the travel books, this one is in with the cookbooks although it's more autobiography than cookbook. That Dewey was a strange man.

And just to make it clear, the book Under the Tuscan Sun is very, very different than the movie. Although, I liked both. In the book the food was just as important as the house renovations and the characters, maybe even more important than all the characters except the main one.