The long-awaited, laugh-out-loud autobiography by the famous creator of Leite's Culinari, the James Beard Award-winning blog. Born in 1960's Fall River, Massachusetts into a devotedly Catholic, food-crazed family of Azorean refugees, David Leite had a upbringing that was sitcom material. Yet what no one realized was that this smart-ass, ambitious dreamer always dealt with the terrifying mood swings of bipolar disorder. Following years of futile digging, it was only in his mid-thirties that he eventually…
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The long-awaited, laugh-out-loud autobiography by the famous creator of Leite’s Culinari, the James Beard Award-winning blog. Born in 1960’s Fall River, Massachusetts into a devotedly Catholic, food-crazed family of Azorean refugees, David Leite had a upbringing that was sitcom material. Yet what no one realized was that this smart-ass, ambitious dreamer always dealt with the terrifying mood swings of bipolar disorder. Following years of futile digging, it was only in his mid-thirties that he eventually discovered the truth about it, sought medical care and started to recover. In the story, David takes the reader along with his signature wit and irony on the exhilarating heights and crushing depths of his life, shares the encouters and stories that shaped him.
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The long-awaited, laugh-out-loud autobiography by the famous creator of Leite’s Culinari, the James Beard Award-winning blog. Born in 1960’s Fall River, Massachusetts into a devotedly Catholic, food-crazed family of Azorean refugees, David Leite had a upbringing that was sitcom material. Yet what no one realized was that this smart-ass, ambitious dreamer always dealt with the terrifying mood swings of bipolar disorder. Following years of futile digging, it was only in his mid-thirties that he eventually discovered the truth about it, sought medical care and started to recover. In the story, David takes the reader along with his signature wit and irony on the exhilarating heights and crushing depths of his life, shares the encouters and stories that shaped him.
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