Cooking The World From Scratch - Sasha Martin

Sasha Martin's best childhood memories of her family revolved around food. To help her find her place in the world, Martin took up the endeavor of cooking a meal every week that comes from a different country until she had "cooked the world". The result is her memoir, Life From Scratch, that variously describes her poor childhood with her mother's creative abilities to manifest cultural meals from around the world, to being taken in by a family that enabled her to attend school in Europe, to wanting to share her love of cooking with her own daughter. Martin said that in choosing meals, bigger countries were hard because there is a lot of diversity in cuisine from countries like the United States. To represent her upbringing she chose barbecue ribs and apple pie as her American meal.