Why, oh why couldn’t I find a vocation I truly loved — as much as Ruth did the law? I was still musing on this quandry as I made several stops after work that day to buy groceries for the dinner. After swinging by Staff of Life for salad ingredients and crème fraîche for the soup, I drove to Trader Joe’s, where I snagged a cart and pulled my shopping list out of my bag. First the snack food aisle. I’d decided on cashews and Japanese rice crackers with seaweed and wasabi peas to have with the Champagne, as a hint of the main course to come. I also needed pine nuts for the salad.
Meeting people who are passionate about their work can be inspiring any time, but if they’re famous for it too, the influence cannot be denied.
Official synopsis:
Justice Is Served is Karst’s light-hearted, earnest account of the journey this unexpected challenge launched her on—starting with a trip to Paris for culinary inspiration, and ending with the dinner itself. Along the way, she imparts details of Ginsburg’s transformation from a young Jewish girl from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to one of the most celebrated Supreme Court justices in our nation’s history, and shares recipes for the mouthwatering dishes she came up with as she prepared for the big night. But this memoir isn’t simply a tale of prepping for and cooking dinner for the famous RBG; it’s also about how this event, and all the planning and preparation that went into it, created a new sort of connection between Karst, her partner, and her parents, and also inspired Karst to make life changes that would reverberate far beyond one dinner party.
The author wrote an interesting story of her life, even while confessing it probably wasn’t the life of her dreams. She worked in a law office by day, but she didn’t have the passion for it that she saw in her father, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Ruth’s husband, tax attorney Marty Ginsberg. What she really sounded passionate about was planning the dinner she would be serving to the Ginsbergs at her parents’ house.
Karst was great at making the food and its preparation sound way more interesting than this reader usually considers it. She took into account the Ginsbergs’ preferences and limitations, and then set out to serve a truly impressive and memorable meal in the midst of a weekend of events in their honor. The book provided insight to Justice Ginsberg’s background (through entertaining interludes about her life and career), while also giving the first-person retelling of having spent a bit of time personally with the Justice.
The book was interesting and engaging to read and live the life of the author for a year, but it was also easy to imagine someone duplicating the dinner party through the actual recipes at the end. This book earned 3 out of 5 stars and inspired an appetite for insightful law conversation and a delicious meal.
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Becki Bayley likes feeling the sun on her face, watching butterflies, and reading on her porch. As the days get longer, this finally becomes a possibility. Watch for it to become a reality on Instagram, where she posts as PoshBecki.
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Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG, by Leslie Karst
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