“Stop letting men tell your story.” After eating her cajeta ice cream and apricot dessert at an event, Mexican cooking expert Diana Kennedy said those words to pastry chef Lisa Donovan. That admonishment resonated with Donovan, who then embarked on a multiyear examination of her culinary career and her life experiences both in and out of the kitchen.

The result of that introspection is Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, Donovan’s intensely personal but also universal new memoir, out Tuesday, Aug. 4, via Penguin Press. Click for article