Isbn: 9781772033953 - cooking tips for desperate fishwives: an island memoir (11 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Winner, Silver - Culinary Narratives, Taste Canada Awards 2023Part love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction, this offbeat memoir chronicles the unpredictable life of a young wife and mother on Gabriola Island.In 1989, twenty-three-year-old Margot Fedoruk left Winnipeg and her volatile Slavic-Jewish family for the wilds of BC to work as a tree planter and to contemplate her mother's untimely death from cancer. There, she met Rick Corless, a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver, and soon found herself pregnant and cooking vegetarian meals for meat-eating divers on Rick's boat, The Buckaroo, as they travelled along the rugged northern BC coastline.Eventually, the unlikely couple settled on Gabriola Island to raise two girls, dig for clams, keep chickens, clean houses, and make soap to sell at the local market. As she washed windows with stunning ocean views, Margot also wiped away lonely tears, determined not to repeat the same mistakes as she had witnessed during her parents' marriage made in hell. Through dark humour, vivid descriptions, and quirky characters, Margot's reflections on marriage, motherhood, isolation, food, and family paint an unforgettable portrait of a modern-day fishwife left behind to keep the home fires burning. True to its title, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is a memoir infused with recipes, from the hearty Eastern European fare of Margot's childhood to more adventurous coastal BC cuisine. …

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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice soft cover copy without flaw. 5.5 X 8.5" 246 pages. An unforgettable West Coast memoir infused with mouth-watering recipes, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is equal parts love story, survival story, and meditation on family dysfunction.…

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