Bread & Water

Essays

Dee Hobsbawn-Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-822-1 (ISBN)

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The lyricism of Bread & Water interweaves culinary insights and literary essays to pose fundamental questions about how we live----and how we feed----the larger hungers that motivate our lives. "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. Bread & Water 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. It is an elegant collection that weaves joy into exploring the quotidian in search for larger meaning.

dee Hobsbawn-Smith is an award-winning author, essayist, poet, fictionist, chef, curious cook, food writer and runner who lives rurally, west of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An ex-restaurateur and longtime freelance journalist, she has written eight books, including Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet ; The Curious Cook at Home ; and Wildness Rushing In: Poems.

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction

Learning to Cook
Watershed
Cooking for James
Jobs That Taught Her More Than Cooking
Prairie Pragmatic
Bellow
Whale Watching
Slow Down, Dammit
Love Affair with a Wolf
Shell Games
The Spiral Tunnels
Annual Canning Bee
Floodplain
Wiebo’s Way
The Pleasure of Your Company
Prodigal
Handmade
Ashes
Rapture
Surrender in Iambic Tetrameter
The Lake, Leaving

Postscript
Notes
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Digestions
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	131 x 204 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-88977-822-1 / 0889778221
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-822-1 / 9780889778221
Zustand	Neuware