About the Author
Lisa Joy Solomon is a journalism graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and has been a featured writer and creative writing workshop leader for the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment for the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas. As an editor and freelance writer, her literary essays and nonfiction feature articles have been published in city newspapers, national magazines, and anthologies. A series of food columns that she began to write following the death of her father were published in twenty-eight publications, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Santa Fe New Mexican, Vegetarian Times, The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, JUF News of Chicago, and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.

About the Book
Here, deeply researched (with a fourteen-page References and Bibliography) and clearly presented are twenty-six separate stories with captioned photographs and topic-specific recipes.

One Peaceful Moment, An Alphabet of Stories about Food, Writing, Art, and the Quest for a Sense of Place, can be read from “A is for African Violet” to “Z is for Zest,” in the order in which the stories are alphabetically, though not chronologically, arranged; or the reader may wish to start with "K is for Kitten," in which the recipe for Fruit and Nut Tuna Fish Salad is interwoven with the illuminating narrative about the choices Ms. Solomon made as a young, single mother.

Each story is a complete encounter within itself, capturing a quietly observed and studied exploration (worked on for about fourteen years, as Ms. Solomon explains in the important-to-read A Note About This Book) of challenging ─ sometimes frightening ─ times of change, disillusionment, confusion, loneliness, and loss; and how, why, when, and for what reasons, moments of true nourishment arrive that hold within them the potential to inform, and therefore encourage and fortify, a way onward.