The Wednesday Chef cooks her heart out, finds her way home, and shares her recipes with us

Luisa Weiss was a toddler living in West German Berlin when her Italian mother and American father divorced, and she spent her subsequent childhood commuting back and forth between Boston and Berlin. Faced with such a peripatetic existence, the one place she could always look to for steadiness, comfort and a sense of home was the kitchen. This love of food carried over into her adulthood. She achieved success in New York as a cookbook editor and award-winning food blogger engaged to a wonderful guy, but as she chronicles in her new memoir MY BERLIN KITCHEN, sometimes what seems right can feel deeply wrong and you must turn your life upside down to find your way.

Luisa will seduce you with stories of foraging for plums in abandoned orchards in downtown Berlin, battling with white asparagus at the tail end of the season, orchestrating a three-family Thanksgiving dinner and mending her broken heart with batches of impossible German cookies. She will convince you that while Paris has its magic, for real inspiration in the kitchen, and in life, there is nothing like Berlin.

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