Fried Butter: A Food Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156947334X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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What’s recalled and savored is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, or insightful and poignant, but it is always witty and penetrating and wholly beguiling. Full of piquant philosophical asides and fascinating culinary lore."—San Francisco Chronicle"Opincar’s bites-of-passage are ruefully funny."—The New York Times Book ReviewFoods, flavors, textures, aromas are like memories for Abe Opincar. Opincar’s recollections are summoned by food. We eat what we are. We might lo
He now writes for the San Diego Reader reviewing and ranking places of worship (how California can you get?). He has earned his living as a writer since he was 20. . Abe Opincar was born in San Diego, attended high school in Bordeaux and Kyoto, and studied in Jerusalem
Food tells the story San Diego writer Opincar shapes this food memoir as almost a stream-of-consciousness series of vignettes; strong memories attached to food, from the Sabbath chicken he roasted the night he left his wife to a poignant Passover dinner spent with a couple married 50 years.The title of the book comes from the eggs that his mother craved when she was pregnant with him: "the kitchen smelled always of fried butter," she says. His benevolent, patriarchal father ate raw garlic with his meat at dinner, while beaming over his wife's cooking, his great aunt began her descent into dementia by throwing a pot of Romanian cornmeal mus. Kasia S. said Life if precious so live, eat and enjoy. These days everyone is in a mad rush, work, stress, trying to cook dinner in twenty minutes, back to rushing again To me a great bite of food can slow down time forever, it can create a memory, an instant snapshot of a moment in a hectic world, speed is overrated, good food never goes out of style. As a food lover, cookbook hoarder and bookworm I was especially excited to read this, when a delicious food memoir lands in my lap I pounce at it, nothing can stop me. What a treat to get to read such intimate moments of someone's life, especially someone who has eaten some extremely good food and has a few stories to share . Donald L. Linn said Rich. as butter itself is Abe Opincar's spare prose and his eye for detail. Linkages between foods and personal memories are beautifully described as are the many characters the author has encountered in what can only be described as a fully-textured life journey. 'A food memoir' is accurate on as far as it goesthis is a wonderful little book about life. Highly recommended!
In turn, recollections generate memories of food, When Opincar was sent to school in France at 15 he learned proper French table manners, though he mis-speared an under-ripe peach to disastrous effect, an anecdote he recounts as farce. Traveling between past and present, he recollects ingredients from the black radishes that take him back to waiting in Paris with his friend Sophie as she anticipates her husband's return, to the taste of a Chateau d'Yquem that reminds him of a dying Dalia, who was responsible for his overseas education and pushing him ou