The Meaford Public Library will host a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, chef, and a debut memoirist, Bonny Reichert, on Wednesday, July 3, at 1 p.m.
Reichert’s debut book, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty is a moving culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family – and substance and survival – from a chef, journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Aside from listening to her father’s stories of survival during his time at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust. “I’ve always wanted to tell his story. But for years — for decades — I couldn’t find my way in. I just didn’t know how to write about him while still honouring my own experience of being his daughter.”
It was a perfect bowl of borscht in Warsaw that set her into the exploration of her culinary lineage. Reichert recounts defining moments of her life – a tale of scarcity and plenty – with food. It acts as an anchor, source of comfort, identity, joy, and a signifier of survival.
Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased in advance at the Meaford Public Library. Cash only. Ticket price includes a hot beverage and sweet treats.
Signed copies of How to Share an Egg will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Jessica’s Book Nook of Thornbury.
For more information, please contact the Meaford Public Library at 519-538-3500, or email libraryinfo@meaford.ca
This event is sponsored by the Friends of Meaford Library.
