I recently finished Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food For Breakups: The Memoir of A Hungry Girl. I loved it and could not put it down. Contrary to the title, it is not about breakups but instead about the relationships with friends, family, and lovers. She demonstrates how closely people relate life events to food and how our relationships with humans are similar to our relationship with food. Sometimes you have to stop eating certain dishes and other times you only eat dishes because they are passed down. Every chapter was either an ingredient or a dish and her relationship to it.
“In my family, it’s not necessary to lay a place setting for the dead. They’re always with us, encouraging us to eat, and love, live better.” (pg. 60)
Note: The book was very difficult to find in the library and bookstore. I requested mine through my public library’s inter-library loan and it came all the way to Iowa from Klamath Falls, Oregon. I recommend trying to track it because her stories are worth it.
Tags: books, Food, Food Memoir, good reads, Reading
