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If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

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hey_galilei's review

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emotional funny reflective

5.0

mackinseyjoy's review

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emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

gillianw's review

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4.0

To steal from the tagline, this was an excellent book about food, feminism and fury. I follow the author on Threads (and previously on Twitter) and love her pithy, witty posts. Glad to see her posting style translates beautifully into book form.

runslikesnail's review

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adventurous funny informative medium-paced

4.75

ccrutcher's review

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5.0

In this hilarious, insightful collection of essays, DeRuiter manages to make me laugh-out-loud and cry (multiple times). She’s an engaging writer and it’s easy to be pulled into her stories. Relatable and fun - and at times when she describes things like social media vitriol and internet trolls - infuriating.

Her musings on writing/blogging and whether it was worth doing at all some days, hit me right in the gut. But a particular highlight of the book were the essays surrounding food. Although I’m no baker, the stories about perfecting a cookie recipe for her loved ones or researching a long-forgotten pie recipe for her papa read like warm hugs.

I loved this book and if you like food, writing, and feminism - you will too!!