Air and Love - A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboim''s knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her - round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, deep-pink stuffed quinces and herby green rice with a squeeze of lemon juice. It was only after reading their recipe books once they had both died that she began to understand their complicated past. Taking us from Samarkand and Riga to the Middle East, Air and Love is a deeply human retelling of some of the major moments of the twentieth century, and a family story of migration and belonging, suffused with recipes of the food made along the way.

Product details

• Authors: Or Rosenboim, Rosenboim Or
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781529098129
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9812-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Israel, Uzbekistan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, Tel-Aviv, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, COOKING / Essays & Narratives, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Jewish & Kosher, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Culinary, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Middle Eastern, COOKING / Comfort Food, General cookery & recipes, Latvia, Jewish, Migration, immigration and emigration, Comfort food and food nostalgia, Organic food / organic cookery, Cookery / food by ingredient: fish and seafood, Cultural studies: food and society