For nearly a decade, Leah Eskin has been serving up chronicles of everyday life, along with mouthwatering recipes, to the readers of her Home on the Range column in the Chicago Tribune. Now she has whipped up Slice of Life, a collection of her columns covering everything from her early married days to parenting adolescentsand everything in between. From Best Friend Biscuits to Recovery Paella to Sullen Child Oatmeal Squares, theres always a recipe to cope with lifes sticky situations: the dinner party gone awry, the mortifying soccer match, the houseguest who eats nothing, the teenager who wont listen. She tells the story of family life through its ordinary disastersand pleasures.Slice of a Life is both a charming memoir told through food, and with more than 200 recipes, its also a delectable cookbook that will enchant anyone who appreciates the big and little moments of life.