Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care. When her father died unexpectedly, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that she could check one box off of her father's long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how 1 dinner became 100 dinners. An intimate account of humorous and heartbreaking conversations, and a vivid account of the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, Home Made is a tender and vivid portrait of poverty and abundance, vulnerability and strength, estrangement and connection. It is a memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community and a piercing investigation of the essential question: Who are we to each other?