![]() ![]() * Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Avery for an ARC. It pushes us into a state of aggressive gratitude that throws what’s big and what’s small into the sharpest relief.” Instead, she gives a glimpse into an ordinary life turned upside down and the foods that helped her regain a zest for life by reconnecting her with her family and her Jewish heritage. She doesn’t think she was particularly brave in getting through an unwanted illness nor does she think the perfect almond macaroon or cherry clafoutis is beyond anyone’s capability. It’s that unpretentiousness that really endears her to me. During her long recovery process she started a food blog, Sweet Amandine.Īt the end of each chapter she shares recipes that alternate between simple, favorite dishes and more involved ones. A subsequent surgery to clip the aneurysm left her blind in one eye and with a caved-in section at her temple, which she later had corrected by a plastic surgeon. At age 28 Fechtor, then a graduate student in history and Yiddish, collapsed on a treadmill with a brain bleed. ![]() ![]() ![]() (4.5) For me this is right up there with Molly Wizenberg and Ruth Reichl in terms of how the author manages to merge food writing with a frank recounting of personal experience with crisis and heartache. ![]()
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