Bread and Milk

Description

Bread and Milk
by Karolina Ramqvist

ISBN: 9781552454893
Softcover, new
Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Brief Description:
A gorgeous essayistic memoir about how what we eat is inexorably
intertwined with how we love Bread and Milk traces a life through food from
carefully restricted low-fat margarine to a bag of tangerines devoured in
one setting to the luxury of a grandmother’s rice pudding. In this radiant
memoir from one of Northern Europe’s most notable literary stylists, we
follow several generations of women and their daughters as they struggle
with financial and emotional vulnerability, independence, and motherhood.
When Karolina finds herself a single mother to a young daughter of her own,
food becomes the way for her to show her love, but also to instill a
fraught and complicated inheritance. The result is a lush, meditative
memoir about the connections we make between food and love: how a mother’s
emotional absence is filled by the food she painstakingly provides, how a
missing father’s approval is granted for tomatoes sliced just right. Bread
and Milk is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly
intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina
Ramqvist’s authorship.