Bread & Water: Essays (Digestions) - Softcover

Dee Hobsbawn-Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889778116 ISBN 13: 9780889778115

Publisher: University of Regina Press, 2021

Synopsis

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. Butas begin the best storiesher 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 and Water uses lyrical prose to describe 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 ideas 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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889778116
• ISBN 13: 9780889778115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240