By Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Food can be a weighty issue, literally and figuratively, as we discover in My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes by Dawn Lerman (Berkley), which began as a blog on The New York Times website and

By Dawn Lerman, JNS.org In My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes, New York Times wellness blogger and nutritionist Dawn Lerman shares her food journey, and that of her father, a copywriter from the Mad Men era of advertising. Recipes include some of her grandmother’s