Eating Words by Sandra M. Gilbert

Author:Sandra M. Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Cara de Silva (1953–)

A FOOD JOURNALIST, historian of gastronomy, and regular author of a travel column called “A Fork in the Road,” de Silva edited the poignant cookbook In Memory’s Kitchen, a collection of recipes recorded by some starving inhabitants of Terezín (Theresienstadt), a concentration camp in which the women were imprisoned during the Holocaust. A supposedly “model” camp, Terezín was often defined by its Nazi masters as an example of the generosity with which they treated the Jewish inmates: there were concerts, plays, lectures—and even a propaganda film claiming that “The Führer Gives the Jews a Town.” But in reality, the prisoners lived (and starved) on watery soup and moldy bread. Reviewing the cookbook Wilhelmina Pächter and her friends compiled in these bitter circumstances, the writer Lore Dickstein declared that the work is itself “an act of defiance and resistance, a means of identification in a dehumanized world [and] a life force in the face of death.” But the book is also a poignant compendium of Proustian memories. We include here, along with de Silva’s introduction, Pächter’s own recipe for her beloved cold stuffed eggs.

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