The Sweetness of Life: My Mother's Yiddish Cookbook - Paperback

by Harry Rajchgot (Author)

A social history of my family's roots in Eastern Europe and their postwar experience after coming to Canada, with emphasis on food, shared recipes, and the Yiddish language.

Author Biography

Harry Rajchgot grew up in Montreal, where his parents ended up after arriving from Europe after the Second World War. He is a writer and dentist, and author of the novel Gravitational Fields and co-author, with Rabbi Leigh Lerner, of Purimspiel! Original Purimspiel Plays. His mother tongue was Yiddish, but when he started school as a child he forgot all about it for a long time. He is a founding member of the Greene Writers Collective.