Fried Butter: A Food Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156947334X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Food tells the story San Diego writer Opincar shapes this food memoir as almost a stream-of-consciousness series of vignettes; strong memories attached to food, from the Sabbath chicken he roasted the night he left his wife to a poignant Passover dinner spent with a couple married 50 years.The title of the book comes from the eggs that his mother craved when she was pregnant with him: "the kitchen smelled always of fried butter," she says. His benevolent, patriarchal father ate raw garlic with his meat at dinner, while beaming over his wife's cooking, his great aunt began her descent into dementia by throwing a pot of Rom. Life if precious so live, eat and enjoy These days everyone is in a mad rush, work, stress, trying to cook dinner in twenty minutes, back to rushing again To me a great bite of food can slow down time forever, it can create a memory, an instant snapshot of a moment in a hectic world, speed is overrated, good food never goes out of style. As a food lover, cookbook hoarder and bookworm I was especially excited to read this, when a delicious food memoir lands in my lap I pounce at it, nothing can stop me. What a treat to get to read such intimate moments of someone's life, especially someone who has eaten some extremely good food and has a few. Donald L. Linn said Rich. as butter itself is Abe Opincar's spare prose and his eye for detail. Linkages between foods and personal memories are beautifully described as are the many characters the author has encountered in what can only be described as a fully-textured life journey. 'A food memoir' is accurate on as far as it goesthis is a wonderful little book about life. Highly recommended!
"Clever and witty."—Chicago Tribune"The writing is offbeat, achieving the trick of seeming at once grounded and untethered. Opincar’s recollections are summoned by food. He lives in Southern California and New York.From the Trade Paperback edition.. He remembers leaving his wife the night he baked chicken, being criticized by French hosts for not properly eating ripe peaches with a knife and a fork, eggs sunny side up and first sex, cornmeal mush and his dotty aunt, garlic and his father’s love. Abe Opincar has published countless articles and writes for The San Diego Reader and Gourmet. Food is life, and Opincar relishes it. His life in California, Kyoto, Jerusalem, Paris, Istanbul and Tijuana is all called up by flavors that bring back the moments and places and people he broke bread with and loved. Elemental acuity and the burlesque combine here to delicious effect."—Kirkus Reviews (starred) "A joyous revelry in good food even when the memories evoked are bittersw
In turn, recollections generate memories of food, When Opincar was sent to school in France at 15 he learned proper French table manners, though he mis-speared an under-ripe peach to disastrous effect, an anecdote he recounts as farce. While each group of memories forms an interconnected chapter, the volume lacks an overall structure, sometimes seeming as if the stories were picked at random. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Not all memories are his own; some are from such friends and acquaintances as Iranian Reza (of saffron), as well as from Niang (with her sad memories of childhood and yams in China); and Opincar's mother remembers the so
Abe Opincar was born in San Diego, attended high school in Bordeaux and Kyoto, and studied in Jerusalem. . He now writes for the San Diego Reader reviewing and ranking places of worship (how California can you get?). He has earned his living as a writer since he was 20