Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview
When I was a child, my dad had this story about how he and his cousin, after being liberated from a barn in the German countryside, came outside, and the American army was there, and they were starving. What did they have? They only had green relish. My dad and his cousin ate this green relish – these starving boys, and promptly got sick, and they needed more food, and the army said, we can take you to a DP camp where there’s food. And my dad was like, “No, no more camps. Thank you.” And so they started to just roam the countryside looking for food, and they knocked on doors, and most of the farmers said, no, no, no. And finally, one farmer came back with one egg for the two boys. So I knew this story when I was young and when I was a teenager, and I thought, Oh, maybe I will write this book. That was the name, How to Share an Egg, and it’s been with me since then. They let me keep it so that was pretty cool.
