Bread & Water

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Join us for the virtual launch and reading from dee Hobsbawn-Smith's newest collection, Bread & Water

The University of Regina Press and McNally Robinson invite you to join writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith in celebration of her latest work, Bread &amp; Water: Essays, on Sunday, September 19, at 7:00PM CST/MDT. ZOOM DETAILS BELOW.In Bread &amp; Water, the author writes from a life spent in the world of food to create moving essays reflecting on her early years as a culinary student, the joys and frustrations of eating sustainably, and the impact of floods on her childhood homes. Join her for a reading from this captivating collection, followed by a discussion with writer Jeanette Lynes. About the Book&quot;dee’s passions for the visceral stuff of life—food, cooking, love, running, loving, grieving—beckon us all to the table.&quot;—Jennifer Cockrall-King, author of Food and the CityWhen chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But—as begin the best stories—her next adventure didn’t quite work that way.Food trickled into her poems, her essays, her fiction. And water poured into her property in both Saskatchewan and Calgary during two devastating floods. Bread &amp; Water uses lyrical prose to examine those two fundamental ingredients, and to probe the essential questions on how to live a life. Hobsbawn-Smith uses food to explore the hungers of the human soul: wilder hungers that loiter beyond cravings for love. She kneads themes of floods and place, grief and loss; the commonalities of refugees and Canadians through common tastes in food; cooking methods, grandmothers and mentors; the politics of local and sustainable food; parenting; male privilege in the restaurant world; and the challenges of aging gracefully.It is an elegant collection that weaves joy into exploring the quotidian in search for larger meaning.JOIN THE LIVESTREAMSep 19, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific TimeJoin Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94552627989?pwd=aTBlM1MvYTBZQUhsc2RBNm5IeS9HQT09Meeting ID: 945 5262 7989Passcode: 110763Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abQWdYVGb5If you are unable to connect by Zoom, you can watch the launch live on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2Z7bvlwS8

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