Bread & Water

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9780889778238

<B>The lyricism of <I>Bread &amp; Water</I> interweaves culinary insights and literary essays to pose fundamental questions about how we live&ndash;&ndash;and how we feed&ndash;&ndash;the larger hungers that motivate our lives.</B><BR /><BR />&ldquo;When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it . . .&rdquo; &mdash;MFK Fisher<BR />&#160;<BR />When chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But&mdash;as begin the best stories&mdash;her next adventure didn&rsquo;t quite work that way.<BR />&#160;<BR />Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods.<BR />&#160;<BR /><I>Bread &amp; Water </I>uses lyrical prose to examine those two fundamental ingredients, and to probe the essential questions on how to live a life. Hobsbawn-Smith uses food to explore the hungers of the human soul: wilder hungers that loiter beyond cravings for love. She kneads themes of floods and place, grief and loss; the commonalities of refugees and Canadians through common tastes in food; cooking methods, grandmothers and mentors; the politics of local and sustainable food; parenting; male privilege in the restaurant world; and the challenges of aging gracefully.<BR />&#160;<BR />It is an elegant collection that weaves joy into exploring the quotidian in search for larger meaning.<BR />&#160;