That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food From the Heart - Hardcover

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Lisa Lucas is a writer, producer, and actor who has produced and written more than thirty television series including for ABC's The Bachelorette, Bravo's Work of Art, and NBC's Emmy–winning My 1st Time. She produced the 2017 Emmy-nominated feature documentary Defending the Fire, and the 2022 Emmy-winning feature documentary However Wide the Sky. She is also an executive producer and principal partner in LikeMinds, a production company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that creates content for documentary and scripted television series, short films, and independent features. Lisa has received professional theatrical training from the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, and studied Shakespearean theater at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama in London. For some reason, she is frequently cast in roles of either unfortunate victims of wrong place at the wrong time situations, like in NBC's The Night Shift, or hyper pious parochial school nuns like in the 2021 short film The Holy Word. In 2020, Lisa and Debrianna Mansini launched Corona Kitchen, an unscripted nightly cooking show on Facebook and YouTube Live. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Debrianna Mansini is an actor, writer, and activist who is known for her role as Fran in AMC's Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and playing opposite Oscar winner Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart. She trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City before launching Tin Roof Productions, which later became the Santa Fe Performing Arts Company. Debrianna has worked off-Broadway in New York and has toured on stage throughout the United States in her critically acclaimed show The Meatball Chronicles. Debrianna and her husband, David Forlano, won the Earth Keepers Award for Best Sustainable Video for their documentary short Earth Ships of Taos, which was shown at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, and several of their documentary shorts have aired on Al Gore's cable network, Current TV. In 2010, Debrianna's children's short, Picking Up Feets, was selected for the International Women in Film Festival. In 2020, Debrianna and Lisa Lucas launched Corona Kitchen, an unscripted nightly cooking show on Facebook and YouTube Live. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Penina Meisels is an acclaimed food photographer who has photographed for Williams-Sonoma, Julia Child and Jaques Pépin, as well as a number of Joanne Weir's cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Weir Cooking in the City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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That Time We Ate Our Feelings is a natural progression of the livestream series. It is an introduction to this docu-experiment for those outside the Corona Kitchen social media sphere as well as a written culinary diary for our dedicated followers. We thought, Who wouldn’t want to read about two opinionated feminists who were trying to cope during a worldwide pandemic in a particularly tense election year? As a bonus, we have added some wonderfully poignant stories to accompany the fantastic family recipes we shared and “test kitchened” with viewers over the course of the quarantine. We are happy to make these scrumptious recipes available for people to enjoy and recreate in their own kitchens. 

This cookbook was written as an extension of a wonderful online community. It contains our best recipes; our dearest family stories, influences, and inspirations; and recipes from special guests as well as our regular weekly contributor and sister-friend, Hollie Lucas-Alcalay of Hollie’s Homegrown, along with a select few culinary contributions from our viewers.

Thank you so very much to our phenomenal Corona Kitchen members, without whom we would not be writing this book. Food is love. We came together online at a time when people could not come together in person. Through cooking, we managed to keep our friends, family, and ourselves sane during an insane time. When life is precarious, we turn to food for nourishment, communion, and storytelling. We are grateful for the time we have with family and friends, even when it’s in little boxes on our laptop screens. And this unexpected, forced isolation had a silver lining: it taught us to reconnect with the simple pleasures of life, like a great loaf of bread or a bunch of greens freshly picked from the garden. It also created a particular bubble of introspection and self-analysis underscored by the one thing that makes us feel like it’s all going to be okay: comfort food. Comfort food is calming and restorative, tasty, wholesome, welcoming, and filled with stories. Our goal with this comfort food cookbook was for it to be unintimidating and perhaps even inspire people who may never have dared to cook before. We believe that the title of Chef Auguste Gusteau’s cookbook from the Pixar movie Ratatouille is spot on: Anyone Can Cook. 

In good health (and with proper measuring cups),

Debrianna and Lisa