Air and Love

A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

Or Rosenboim

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Picador
27 August 2024

Memoirs; Migration, immigration & emigration; General cookery & recipes; Health & wholefood cookery; Nostalgia: general

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, stuffed vine leaves, herby green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers' recipe books after they both died that she began to explore that past for the first time.

The result is a vivid chronicle of displacement and escape, retracing the complex network of journeys her family took from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in search of safety and a better life, punctuated by the food they ate and cooked along the way. Today, though, these journeys, and this long tradition of migration, would now be almost impossible.

A beguiling mixture of history, memoir, travel and food, Air and Love is also a fresh and deeply human retelling of some of the major stories of the twentieth century.

By: Or Rosenboim
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781529098099
ISBN 10: 1529098092
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 August 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dr Or Rosenboim is an intellectual historian specializing in twentieth-century political ideas. She is Director of the Centre for Modern History at City University of London. She is a trained pastry chef (Cordon Bleu, Paris), and the founder of The Migrants' Supper Club in London. Her award-winning book The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 was published by Princeton University Press in 2017 (paperback, 2019). She has written for various international magazines and websites, and co-authored with Ilana Efrati an art and food book, Orto: Nature, Inspiration, Food (2019). She has lived in Tel Aviv, Bologna, Paris, Los Angeles, Cambridge and Florence, and now divides her time between London and Umbria.