Relish

 Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley, 173 pages.

Lucy Knisley was taught a deep appreciation for food from her earliest days, and this means she charts the course of her life in terms of food; what she was cooking and eating, forbidden foods, beloved foods, any foods where connection grew up. As the daughter of a professional chef and intense gourmet she had plenty of exposure to high quality foods, but just as many of the foods that made an impression were things like Mexican candy and the type of terrible culinary inventions that I think most people who have been to college are familiar with.

The blurb on this book was from Alison Bechdel, which feels appropriate because, despite the very different tone and subject matter, this book felt oddly reminiscent of Fun Home. I think it was the Knisley managed to write a biography that felt like it captured a child's perspective while retaining an adult's benefit of experience. I found this graphic memoir masterfully done, and the illustrated recipes at the end of each chapter felt like the cherry on top. This memoir feels like more than the sum of its parts, and I highly recommend it.