Food for Thought

You are never too old for a good recipe, a good story and some loving motherly advice. What if you could get all three within twenty minutes and change your life for the better?

Amy Matuza wrote Food for Thought: Twenty-Minute Life Recipes from Mom as a sneaky way to continue imparting motherly advice to her adult children after they left home by disguising it in a "cookbook." Each chapter focuses on an important tenet or principle and shares positive life "nuggets of wisdom" through the art of storytelling. The accounts are meant to encourage and entertain while also being thought provoking and helpful, not just for her own children, but for adult readers of all ages in need of some loving, motherly advice.

The recipes shared in this unique self-help memoir were served around Amy's own dining table, to her family, over years of sacred (and often raucous-especially on swear night) family dinners. They are perfect for college students on a budget, young adults living and cooking on their own for the first time, and anyone looking for (mostly) healthy, relatively inexpensive, and easy-to-prepare home-cooked meals.

If you are looking for the perfect graduation present, a token for someone starting a new job or taking a new direction in his or her life, a housewarming gift, or just some novel ideas to approach your life differently, this one-of-a-kind book is for you.

May each reader of Food for Thought: Twenty-Minute Life Recipes from Mom be inspired to realize that his or her learnings and experiences are distinctive and special treasures which should be shared with others. By passing on these keys to our own happiness, we ultimately gift those closest to us a life tapestry that is richer and more beautiful-one story at a time.