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Enjoy reading cookbooks for leisure? Why not try a cookbook memoir? Listen in as host Elizabeth and guest Mary discuss their new and old favorites in this genre. Books discussed in this episode are Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl, People Who Love to Eat Are Always the Best People and Other Wisdom by Julia Child, Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley, Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger, Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake Cohen, Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table by Boris Fishman, Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking by Bill Buford, Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang and Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, by Michele Zauner. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay
Linda is joined in studio by Karen Escalera, discussing tips on how to eat at top restaurants for less, by Shari Gherman, creator of the American Fine Wine Competition, and friend of the show Jacqueline Coleman, discussing wine news. Special interview with Boris Fishman. Quick Fix Dinner in Minutes at the end!
It's time for our annual Guest List episode! More than two dozen of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2019 and the books they hope to get to in 2020! Guests include Christopher Brown, Nina Bunjevac, Jerome Charyn, Caleb Crain, Joan Marans Dim, Boris Fishman, Katelan Foisy, Mort Gerberg, Eva Hagberg, Peter Kuper, Kate Lacour, Liniers, Kate Maruyama, Edie Nadelhaft, Sylvia Nickerson, James Oseland, Dawn Raffel, Witold Rybczynski, Frank Santoro, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Karl Stevens, James Sturm, Frederic Tuten, and Chris Ware! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal
This week, Boris Fishman tells his family's astonishing story—from the exploits of his grandfather, a barber/black marketeer who escaped the Soviet Union draft on the roof of a train, to his family's arrival in Brooklyn, where they rediscovered the dishes of their Belarusian roots. Plus, Dr. Aaron Carroll takes a hard look at the vegan diet; we discover Argentina's surprising secret to perfectly grilled steak; and we meet the man who invented a $10 million strawberry picking robot. For this week's recipe, Oven-Perfect Strip Steak with Chimichurri, visit: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/grilled-oven-strip-steak-chimichurri-argentina Milk Street Radio Listener Survey: Visit http://177milkstreet.com/radiosurvey to fill out our listener survey and enter for a chance to win a $100 gift card at the Milk Street online store. We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotips
With his new memoir, Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes), author Boris Fishman explores his family's Soviet Jewish legacy, his arc as a writer, and the glorious and varied meals that kept his family together from Minsk to Brighton Beach. We get into why creative nonfiction is his first passion (after publishing two novels), how he guaranteed his family's disapproval by writing about them throughout his career, how he couldn't leave Sovietness behind until he moved out of his parents' home at 24 (despite emigrating from the USSR at 9), what he'd do if he quit the writing game, and why the recipes were the toughest part of Savage Feast. We also talk smack about certain books and authors, compare Malamud to Roth and Bellow, discuss the first (very not Jewish/not Russian) writer Boris became friends with, and explore the use of fiction to imagine alternate lives for oneself. Along the way, we make a life-changing pact, decide whether an MFA is worth pursuing, share book tour best practices, and conclude that Soviet Jewish guilt is exponentially more severe than Jewish guilt. It's a whole lot of talk about books, food, and deracinated Jews! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal
In the first episode, Marion Roach Smith and David Leite chat with author Boris Fishman about memoir writing, the power of food, and writing about depression.
Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at nine. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Travel & Leisure, New York Magazine, and other publications His novels include A Replacement Life and Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with Boris Fishman about belonging, community, and notions of home, along with how fiction is a way to explore alternate lives ("or the lives at which we have not yet arrived"); guest readers Brad Ridky and Shifra Sharlin join Oppenheimer to discuss insiders and interlopers, others and outsiders, driving and being driven.
Tune in to hear the eloquent and entertaining Boris Fishman talk about everything from farming, fish and Brooklyn to Westerly, childhood memories and Montana. I cannot wait until his RI appearance on Thursday, March 17th at 5:30pm at the Brown University Bookstore on Thayer Street in Providence, RI. Don’t miss this treat!!
The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Mondays at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com
Functionally Literate Radio Episode 023, "Boris Fishman." Recorded on 1/22/15 at WPRK, 91.5 FM in Winter Park, Florida. Featuring an interview with author Boris Fishman about his 2014 novel A Replacement Life. Hosted by Ryan Rivas and Jared Silvia.
Ben's back in town to help Alex break down the best eating and exercise habits you can apply to take your tournament game to the next level. Then our first community submitted Deck Tech with Boris Fishman's "UWR Miracles". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I host a roundtable discussion with Vanessa Blakeslee, David James Poissant, and Boris Fishman, in which we critique the essay collection, MFA vs. NYC, Plus J. Bradley reads a selection from his new prose poem book, A Wild Swing of the Knife. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Buy It is a Wild Swing of the Knife here. Patrick Hawkins (Episode 145) and his fellow Geeks of Comedy will be performing at Megacon on April 10th and 11th in Orlando. Check out here for more info.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I share a recording of a live event featuring Boris Fishman reading from his novel, A Replacement Life Photo by Rob Liguori and your humble host reading poetry. Texts Discussed Read the New Yorker profile of Merle Haggard here.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with fiction writer and poet Stuart Dybek, and I also talk to the poet Denise Duhamel, plus Jim Ross writes about how Moss Hart's Act One changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read prose at There Will Be Words on January 13th. On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library. On Saturday, January 24th, 7 P.M., come hear Boris Fishman read from his novel, A Replacement Life, and me read poetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I share another Miami BookFair International interview, this one with writer and filmmaker John Waters. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read prose at There Will Be Words on January 13th. On Tuesday, January 20th, 7 P.M., Leslie Salas will lead a workshop on imagery at the Orlando Public Library, Herndon Branch On Saturday, January 24th, 11 A.M., J. Bradley will host a love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library. On Saturday, January 24th, 7 P.M., come hear Boris Fishman read from his novel, A Replacement Life, and me read poetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to the fiction writer Boris Fishman, Photo by Rob Liguori Plus Lisa Korthals shares her essay about reading Lolita as a child. TEXTS DISCUSSED