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In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Everyone eats, everyone has memories, and everyone has traditions. Written by undernourished and starving women in the Czechoslovakian concentration camp, In Memory's Kitchen pages are filled with the recipes giving instructions for making beloved dishes in the rich, robust Czech tradition. Sometimes steps or ingredients are missing, the gaps a painful illustration of the ...more
Hardcover, 110 pages
Published
July 28th 1996
by Jason Aronson
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This book is a memoir told in recipes. I know that nothing I say here will do this book justice. This quote from the book's foreward by Dorothy Wagner explains:
"Their thoughts were inevitably and ceaselessly focused on food. Discussion of its preparation and the heated arguments concerning the superiority of one method over another served as more than an anodyne for their tortured nerves. It strengthened their resolution to survive, if only because it made more vivid, not w...more
"Their thoughts were inevitably and ceaselessly focused on food. Discussion of its preparation and the heated arguments concerning the superiority of one method over another served as more than an anodyne for their tortured nerves. It strengthened their resolution to survive, if only because it made more vivid, not w...more
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A cookbook for reading rather than for following recipes. It's sad to contemplate the suffering of the people in Terezin, but so good to learn that they had lived. The women's act of preserving their beloved recipes made me feel a bond of humanity with them.
Can't say I "enjoyed it" but the horror and amazement I felt that a cookbook was made by these women in death camps is beyond description. I am awed to know the story.
Nothing like I have ever read-more novel than cookbook, more history of a very personal nature during a very horrific time. Unique and heartwrenching
While the Introduction to this book is quite interesting, the rest of the book consists of recipes. Despite reviews indicating this fact, I thought there would be a prose commentary or explanation to make up a full book. But, it is simply recipes. It is an interesting concept but would make a better PhD thesis then it does a book.
This book is almost entirely a publication of a handwritten recipe book from the 'model' Nazi camp, Terezin. Its interest is chiefly as a historical document. I was expecting a book that dealt more directly with the lived experiences of the women in Terezin, so unfortunately I was disappointed.
Food reveals much about people and their lives. And such was also the case for those who lived during the horrors of the Holocaust. Included are recipes and memories of Jewish women who lived during the Holocaust.
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