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Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present.

Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such as the Boston-based Blake Babies, Antenna, and the Mysteries of Life. is loosely framed around cooking lessons Smith gave to her eldest son, Jonah, before he left for college. Smith compares her son's experiences to her ownmeeting Juliana Hatfield and starting the Blake Babies, touring in Evan Dandos hand-me-down station wagon, and crashing with Henry Rollins, who introduced the band to local California fareall while plumbing the deeper meanings behind the role of food, cooking, and family.