(2013), Open Kitchen (2020), and Veg Forward (2023), and worked as a culinary consultant for the films Julie & Julia and It's Complicated (both 2009), Eat Pray Love (2010), and Labor Day (2013).
[1][2][page needed][3] Spungen's father was a traveling salesman and was owner and chief executive of the Hamptons Paper Company in Water Mill, New York.
[2]: 139 Spungen's grandmother and her family fled their hometown of Zhmerynka, Ukraine, in the late 1910s because of the pogroms of Jews perpetrated during the Russian Civil War, and they ultimately landed in Philadelphia.
[4] A middle-class Jewish family, the Spungens lived in Huntingdon Valley, Lower Moreland Township, in the Philadelphia suburbs.
"[6] When they were older, Nancy moved to New York City,[7] and started a relationship with Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious while visiting England.
Working at an artist-run restaurant in SoHo, Manhattan, named FOOD, for four years, led her to conclude she did not want to pursue a career in the arts.
[6] For Labor Day (2013), which included a romantic scene in which Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet's characters cook a peach pie together, Spungen studied the recipe written in the original work.
[1] It focuses on low-stress cooking, and includes food that Spungen said exhibited a "little bit more soul" than the "perfection" displayed in Martha Stewart Living magazine.
The work was positively received by New York Times reviewer Melissa Clark, who wrote that "all of her food is modern, clever and, in our house, instantly devoured".
[21][22] Spungen married Steven Kasher, owner of a photography gallery in Chelsea, in a wedding at the Blue Hill at Stone Barns in 2007.