Food-Related Stories

<b>&#147;Gaby Melian tells so many stories through her relationship with food&#151;about love about loss about hard work and about finding her passion. The pages are dripping with delicious smells and tastes and will give you a new way to look at both cooking and what it means to have a plan.&#148; &#151;Molly Birnbaum editor in chief America&#146;s Test Kitchen Kids</b><br><br>In this moving personal account chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her journey with food and how creating a relationship with food -- however simple or complicated -- is a form of activism in its own right.<br><br>Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. This&#160;is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. <br><br>Food rescued me so many other times -- not only because I sold food to survive. I cook to entertain; I cook to be liked; I cook to be loved. In this installment chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food -- from growing up in Argentina to her time as a Jersey City street vendor and later as <i>Bon Appetit</i>'s test kitchen manager. Powerful and full of heart here Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's healthy sustainable and thoughtful.