{"product_id":"savage-feast-three-generations-two-continents-and-a-dinner-table-a-memoir-with-recipes-9780062867902","title":"Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eA Replacement Life\u003c\/em\u003e shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love--and an epic meal--\u003cem\u003eSavage Feast\u003c\/em\u003e explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, \u003cem\u003eSavage Feast \u003c\/em\u003ebegins with Boris's childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris' grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris' family--Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence--provided-for and protected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris' family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one's roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris's grandfather's Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana's kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women--troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations--unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSavage Feast\u003c\/em\u003e is Boris' tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFishman, Boris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTravel \u003c\/em\u003e+ \u003cem\u003eLeisure\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. He is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eA Replacement Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book of the Year and winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and \u003cem\u003eDon't Let My Baby Do Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e, which was also a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book of the Year. He teaches in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409561981202,"sku":"9780062867902","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67bc359a-3127-4840-ab80-230cdbe2417d.jpg?v=1729290646","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/savage-feast-three-generations-two-continents-and-a-dinner-table-a-memoir-with-recipes-9780062867902","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}