Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir - Softcover

Ehrlich, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014026759X ISBN 13: 9780140267594

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

As a girl, Elizabeth Ehrlich loved to visit her grandmother's kitchens. These were busy, onion-scented, Yiddish-accented places. Within their steamy plaster walls, the grandmothers -- remarkable women of insight, strength, and grace -- preserved and handed on history, tradition, community connection, humor, and wry lessons of life. As an adult, Ehrlich followed the path of her assimilating clan, forgetting the kitchen lessons. Her memory was awakened by her mother-in-law, Miriam. A Holocaust survivor who had suffered unspeakable losses, Miriam cooked the flavorsome dishes and carried on the customs of her childhood. Certain that her work mattered, she rebuilt a life of dignity and meaning. Under Miriam's spell, Ehrlich began to reclaim family memories and explore tradition in her own home. Reciting a prayer, grating a potato, lighting a candle, she found a way to build bridges from her grandparents to her children, and to give her children a timeless legacy. "Miriam's Kitchen" is Elizabeth Ehrlich's preservation of recipes, immigrant stories, childhood memories, droll musings over ritual, and sincere habits of the heart. It is a wise exploration of the need to connect with the past and with tradition, and of our hunger for meaning in a chaotic world.

About this title

Synopsis:

When Ehrlich entered the kitchen of her mother-in-law Miriam, she began to understand the importance of preserving the traditions of the past and gained a new appreciation of life's possibilities, choices and limitations.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Ehrlich lives in Westchester County, New York

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 014026759X
• ISBN 13: 9780140267594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384