dee Hobsbawn-Smith, "Bread & Water: Essays"
English | ISBN: 0889778221 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 668 KB
English | ISBN: 0889778221 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 668 KB
A meditation on the poetics of hunger and the social worlds of cooking
“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 . . .” ―MFK Fisher
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―as begin the best stories―her next adventure didn’t quite work that way.
Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods.
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