Synopses & Reviews
Unforgettable: Bold Flavors from Paula Wolfert's Renegade Life tells the incredible life story of culinary legend Paula Wolfert, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013. A biographical cookbook written by Emily Kaiser Thelin and photographed by Eric Wolfinger, it shares 50+ of her most unforgettable dishes, and explores the relationship between food and memory.
About the Author
Paula Wolfert never achieved the fame of peers like Julia Child and Jacques Pépin. But her contributions to our culinary life—and her own life story—are too good to forget. Often working below the radar, she changed the way America eats. Known as the Queen of the Mediterranean, she wrote nine seminal books on the region over her 50-year career, publishing her latest, The Foods of Morocco, in 2009. For five decades she championed authentic regional cooking and its components—whole foods, foraged greens, meats cooked in animal fat—way ahead of their time. Her determination made her a hero to some of our most influential chefs, such as Mario Batali, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Alice Waters.
Three years ago, Wolfert was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She has taken on dementia the same way she researched her cookbooks: Full throttle, with exhaustive research, enthusiastically sharing her discoveries. The book also shares her strategies for her illness, from meditation and exercise to treating food as medicine.