My Life in the Microwave - Simon Boulerice

Actor, playwright, screenwriter, host, columnist, and prolific novelist, everything seems to come easily to Simon Boulerice . He admits, however, to being completely inept in the kitchen. It is from this realization that he weaves this intimate tale, as tender as it is playful, an unlikely homage to Jehane Benoît's famous book , *La cuisine micro-ondes* (Microwave Cooking ).

Through touching confessions, poetic fragments, delightfully offbeat photos and fictional dialogues with the grande dame of cooking, the author explores her relationship to domestic life, food and her body.

Will Jehane succeed in validating the cook who lies dormant within him?

“I have a passion for oxymorons and all incongruous juxtapositions. Attaching a cookbook to my name is exquisite nonsense, like the fiercely atheist artist Francis Bacon, who spent his entire life painting popes, crucifixions, and other overtly religious themes. This is the culinary testimony of an atheist in the kitchen.”