Bread & water : essays / dee Hobsbawn-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobsbawn-Smith, Dee, author.

Series:

Digestions (Regina, Sask.) ; 4.

Digestions ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Literary collections.

Food.

Authors, Canadian.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Essays.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 233 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Bread and water

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2021]

Summary:

Calgary for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But her next adventure didn't quite work out that way. Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods. Bread and Water uses lyrical prose to examine those two fundamental elements of sustenance, 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 themes 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. Praise for Bread & Water "Written with heart and intelligence, Bread & Water: Essays is continually entertaining and rewarding. The tone--self-aware, curious, a little vulnerable--is at once individual and communal, and creates a winning humility perfectly suited to the essays' explorative nature." --Tim Bowling, Judge for the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild 2014 John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Learning to Cook

Watershed

Cooking for James

Jobs That Taught Her More Than Cooking

Prairie Pragmatic

Bellow

Whale Watching

Slow Down, Dammit

Love Affair with a Wolf

Shell Games

The Spiral Tunnels

Annual Canning Bee

Floodplain

Wiebo's Way

The Pleasure of Your Company

Prodigal

Handmade

Ashes

Rapture

Surrender in Iambic Tetrameter

The Lake, Leaving.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Hobsbawn-Smith, Dee. Bread & water.

ISBN:

0889778116

9780889778115

0889778221

9780889778221

OCLC:

1241729962

Publisher Number:

99989366955