Air and Love: A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

A gloriously evocative memoir of one family’s journey from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration.

As a child, Or Rosenboim’s knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her – round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, stuffed vine leaves, herby green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers’ recipe books after they both died that she began to explore that past for the first time.

The result is a vivid chronicle of displacement and escape, retracing the complex network of journeys her family took from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in search of safety and a better life, punctuated by the food they ate and cooked along the way. Today, though, these journeys, and this long tradition of migration, would now be almost impossible.

A beguiling mixture of history, memoir, travel and food, Air and Love is also a fresh and deeply human retelling of some of the major stories of the twentieth century.

• | Author: Or Rosenboim
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 23, 2024
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781529098099
• | ISBN-10: 1529098092