{"product_id":"bread-water-essays-9780889778115","title":"Bread \u0026 Water: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meditation on the poetics of hunger and the social worlds of cooking\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. But--as begin the best stories--her next adventure didn't quite work that way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread and Water \u003c\/i\u003euses 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is an elegant collection that weaves joy into exploring the quotidian in search for larger meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edee Hobsbawn-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmith \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eFoodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Cook at Home\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWildness Rushing In: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861914718482,"sku":"9780889778115","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6bb9693b-e756-4e93-ab46-852f912cfeca.jpg?v=1737607517","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bread-water-essays-9780889778115","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}