![]() ![]() It pushes us into a state of aggressive gratitude that throws what’s big and what’s small into the sharpest relief.” Instead, she gives a glimpse into an ordinary life turned upside down and the foods that helped her regain a zest for life by reconnecting her with her family and her Jewish heritage. ![]() She doesn’t think she was particularly brave in getting through an unwanted illness nor does she think the perfect almond macaroon or cherry clafoutis is beyond anyone’s capability. ![]() ![]() It’s that unpretentiousness that really endears her to me. During her long recovery process she started a food blog, Sweet Amandine.Īt the end of each chapter she shares recipes that alternate between simple, favorite dishes and more involved ones. A subsequent surgery to clip the aneurysm left her blind in one eye and with a caved-in section at her temple, which she later had corrected by a plastic surgeon. At age 28 Fechtor, then a graduate student in history and Yiddish, collapsed on a treadmill with a brain bleed. (4.5) For me this is right up there with Molly Wizenberg and Ruth Reichl in terms of how the author manages to merge food writing with a frank recounting of personal experience with crisis and heartache. ![]()
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