Love & Saffron
a novel of friendship, food, and love
| Autor: |
Kim Fay
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
208 |
| Formát: |
12,8 x 19,4 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9781529395105 |
| Nakladatel: |
Two Roads |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Edice: |
Současná beletrie
/ Beletrie
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Two strangers. One recipe. A friendship for the ages.
Creamy risotto alla Milanese. Mussels in a hot, buttery broth. Chicken spiced with cinnamon and cloves. Joan Bergstrom and Imogen Fortier understand the key to a savoured life: delicious food.
Young Joan is just discovering herself as a food writer in bustling Los Angeles, while experienced magazine columnist Imogen is settled in her decades-long marriage on Camano Island outside Seattle. When Joan sends a fan letter to Imogen, alongside a gift of saffron and a recipe, their journey of culinary exploration and life-changing friendship begins.
A long-lost flavour unearths buried memories, a quest to make carne asada opens the doors of a sheltered life, and, as the two women connect through their letters, they build a closeness that sustains them through the unexpected changes in their own worlds.
Review
I absolutely loved this . . . I wanted to go on reading it forever ― Nigella Lawson
A deliciously memorable and lovely story of friendship, food and the enduring connections we form through the lost art of letter writing.
― Tembi Locke, author of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
In the footsteps of Laurie Colwin and Ruth Reichl, Love & Saffron is a beautiful, gentle, intimate exploration of food and friendship, as well as life, loss, and love. ― Susan Elia MacNeal, author of Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, a Maggie Hope novel
Astonishing, exhilarating, existential! Love & Saffron explodes forever the arbitrary separation of fiction from fact. I inhaled this book in one delectably deep breath, uncovering layer after layer of the aromas, flavors, tastes on lips and tongue of my own life as a young American housewife in the 1960s. Author Fay conveys the texture of daily life as a mystery story that discovers food is a cultural creation and connector as powerful as story-telling itself to erase the separation of past from present and memory from now. This is a book for Every Man and Woman. READ IT NOW!
― Betty Fussell, author of The Story of Corn, My Kitchen Wars, and Eat, Live, Love, Die
Love & Saffron is an elixir for our times. It speaks to the power of food to communicate friendship and stoke a curiosity about worlds unlike our own. After you read this book, you'll want to drop a letter in the mail to someone you love.
― Naomi Hirahara, author of Clark and Division
A delectable second novel showing how food can bring people together, even across distances and cultures... Fay's emotionally generous novel demonstrates how people's worlds can expand when they open themselves to new possibilities. Readers will be touched by this enriching tale and inspired to embark on their own international culinary adventures. ― Booklist
Through their culinary adventures, new worlds open up for Joan and Imogen and bring with them new people. This charming, effervescent little novel (it's a slim 200 pages) deserves to be a huge bestseller. ― Red Magazine
About the Author
Kim Fay is the author of the historical novel, The Map of Lost Memories, an Edgar Award finalist for Best First Novel, and the food memoir Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam, a Gourmand World Cookbook Award winner. She created and served as the series editor for the 'To Asia With Love' guidebooks, and was the Hotel Editor for the travel, food and lifestyle website, Gayot.com, for thirteen years. In addition, she reviews crime fiction in translation and works by Los Angeles authors for the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is currently the Managing Editor/Content Manager for The Animation Guild's Keyframe magazine and website.
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