Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
So I think, Oh, I’ll write a book about survivors, and there will be recipes from their old country, and they’ll talk about their experiences in the war, but also before the war, because I I know how much my dad loves to talk about his life before the war, and it you know, my working title was “The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook.” Needless to say, when I workshopped my first set of writing, and I think it must have been a little bit of personal writing, and then a little bit of journalism. And my group said, “Oh, this part, the personal writing, this is way better than the journalism part.” And by the time we were doing our proposals, I started to conceive the book in the form that it took.
