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Savage Feast - Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) (Hardcover)
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Savage Feast - Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) (Hardcover)
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One of Booklist's Must Read Nonfiction picks of 2019 The acclaimed
author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in
this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an
immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast
explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual
angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through
meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris's childhood in
Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He
describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and
how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with
bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove
magician and Boris' grandfather the master black marketer who
supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These
spoils kept Boris' family-Jews who lived under threat of
discrimination and violence-provided-for and protected. Despite its
abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which
Boris' family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome
filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected
to one's roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking
of Oksana, Boris's grandfather's Ukrainian home aide, begins to
show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River
Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side,
a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana's
kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women-troubled, he
realizes, for reasons that go back many generations-unfold
concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an
American soulmate. Savage Feast is Boris' tribute to food, that
secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity,
belonging, family, displacement, and love.
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