Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert’s How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview

Inside the Unconventional Journey Behind Bonny Reichert's How to Share An Egg: A Candid Interview

Bonny: Quite recently, in the last two years, when I found that quote “for people like us” from Esther Perel. I knew that I was part of that “us.” The other person who said that, in a completely different context, was Ruth Reichl, who talked about food people and how food is identity and how you can really understand people but what they eat and how they set their table and how they handle meal time. It’s an important cultural artifact.

I think of them as my spiritual mothers, writers who came before me. And this was really, even though it reads as a book about the Holocaust, and a book about self-discovery, of course, it is. But most of all, I started with the idea that I was writing a food memoir, and the set of conventions and understandings that came from me from people like Ruth Reichl or Dorie Greenspan, or Laurie Colwin who is no longer living, or MFK Fisher, or Elizabeth David.

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