Research Catalog

Title

Comfort food for breakups : the memoir of a hungry girl / Marusya Bociurkiw.

Author

Bociurkiw, Marusya, 1958-

Publication

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

171 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw. In these intimate vingnettes, food -- soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogies -- nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past. For the author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, food becomes her salvation, and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home. --

Subjects

• Bociurkiw, Marusya, 1958-
• Biographies
• Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma > Canada > Biographies
• Écrivains canadiens-anglais > Biographies
• Cuisine
• Bociurkiw, Marusya, 1958- > Famille
• Aliments > Aspect psychologique
• Motion picture producers and directors > Canada > Biography
• Authors, Canadian (English) > Biography
• Cooking
• Bociurkiw, Marusya, 1958- > Family
• Food > Psychological aspects

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mama's kitchen and beyond. Radishes and salt ; Fresh coffee ; Sunday soup ; tomatoes ; Eggs ; Potatoes -- Food for the soul. Thanksgiving dinner ; Vegetable curry ; Lost and found ; Torte ; Mushrooms ; Chicken -- Food voyages. Pranzo ; Meze ; Fish on Fridays -- Food for the body. Chocolate ; Grilled salmon ; Pie ; Carrot cake ; Oranges ; Recipe for trouble ; Comfort food for breakups ; Varennyky ; Apples.

ISBN

• 1551522195
• 9781551522197

OCLC

• 81601226
• SCSB-12855161

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library