In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Charmaine Wilkerson, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Black Cake, about Food and Roots. Black Cake covers California, the Caribbean and the UK, and Charmaine lives in Rome, so she has plenty to say about how food shapes our experiences of settings and helps us to form memories. In the episode, we talk about how food can anchor us and shape our experience of a place, as well as the foods that make us most nostalgic, and the healing power of apple pie.

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About Charmaine Wilkerson: Charmaine is from New York, has lived in Jamaica, and does much of her writing in Italy. Her debut novel Black Cake is a New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. A screen series based on the novel is currently under development for Hulu. Charmaine is a former US news and communication professional whose award-winning short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines. Black Cake featured in Barack Obama's 2022 summer reading list.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

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Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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