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War and the Food of Dreams: An Interview with Cara De Silva
- Cara De Silva (author)
- Irina Dumitrescu (author)
Chapter of: Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi(pp. 53–77)
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| Title | War and the Food of Dreams |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | An Interview with Cara De Silva |
| Contributor | Cara De Silva (author) |
| Irina Dumitrescu (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.07 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | De Silva, Cara; Dumitrescu, Irina |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2016-02-29 |
| Long abstract | I discovered Cara De Silva’s work on my own bookshelf, in the form of In Memory’s Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezín, her edition of a recipe collection written from memory in the Theresien-stadt / Terezínconcentration camp.1 It is a moving document, listing instructions for deviled eggs, candied fruits, caramels, cherry-plum dumplings, and coffee cake, recalled and written down in the midst of starvation. In one of her poems, Mina Pächter, one of the book’s authors and the woman through whom it survived, describes the deg-radation to which Terezín’s cultured, educated inmates were subjected |
| Page range | pp. 53–77 |
| Print length | 25 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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