For Book Clubs and Book Lovers - BONNY REICHERT/ How to Share an Egg

FOR BOOK CLUBS AND BOOK LOVERS

BONNY REICHERT / How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

In Conversation 
A moving culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family —sustenance and survival—from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust until she found herself, in midlife,
suddenly typing those words into an article she was writing. The journalist had grown up hearing
stories about her father’s near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she
never imagined she would be able to face this epic legacy head-on.
Bonny set on a journey to unearth her culinary lineage, and she began to dig for the roots of her
food obsession, dish by dish. Stepping into the kitchen to connect her past with her future, the
author recounts the defining moments of her life in a poignant tale of scarcity and plenty: her colour
ful childhood in the restaurant business, the crumbling of her first marriage and the intensity of
young motherhood, her decision to become a chef, and a life-altering visit to Poland. Cuisine is
both an anchor and an identity; a source of joy and a signifier of survival.
How to Share an Egg is a journey of deep flavours and surprising contrasts. By turns sweet, salty,
sour, and bitter, this is one woman’s search to find her voice as a writer, chef, mother, and daughter.

BONNY REICHERT is a Canadian writer, chef, food stylist, and journalist whose work often explores
the intersection of food, family, memory, and identity. She has worked for major magazines such
as Today’s Parent and Chatelaine, and contributed regularly to The Globe and Mail.

SPONSORED BY ESTHER CHETNER