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Altman, Elissa.
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Altman, Elissa -- Childhood and youth.
Altman family.
Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Altman family.
Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Treyf : my life as an unorthodox outlaw /
Elissa
Altman
.
by
Altman
,
Elissa
.
Call #:
305.8924 A468t
Subjects
Altman
,
Elissa
.
Altman
,
Elissa
--
Childhood
and
youth
.
Altman
family.
Jewish women
--
New York (State)
--
New York
--
Biography.
Jews
--
New York (State)
--
New York
--
Biography.
Young women
--
New York (State)
--
New York
--
Biography.
Young women
--
Identity
--
Biography.
Women food writers
--
United States
--
Biography.
New York (N.Y.)
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780425277812 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
287 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The kitchen
--
The year of the mitzvah
--
The country
--
Mad men
--
The neighbors
--
Christmas
--
Motherland
--
Camp
--
Sylvia
--
Prayer
--
Officer's mess
--
A different sort of woman
--
Captain America
--
The fourth wall
--
Take the gun; leave the tefillin
--
The mountains
--
Cooking
--
Family
--
601
--
The dead file
--
Seven days
--
Susan
--
The plot
--
Treyf.
Summary:
"Treyf - According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing of meat and dairy. Also, imperfect, intolerable, offensive, undesirable, unclean, improper, broken, forbidden, illicit. A person can eat treyf; a person can be treyf.
Elissa
Altman
explores the tradition, religion, family expectation, and the forbidden that were the fixed points in her 1970s Queens, New York,
childhood
. Every part of
Altman
's
youth
was laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal and the yearning for acceptance - synagogue on Saturday and Chinese pork ribs on Sunday; Bat Mitzvahs followed by shrimp-in-lobster-sauce luncheons; her old-country grandparents, whose kindness and love were tied to unspoken rage, and her bell-bottomed neighbors, whose adoring affection hid dark secrets. While the suburban promise of The Brady Bunch blared on television,
Altman
searched for peace and meaning in a world teeming with faith, violence, sex, and paradox. Spanning from 1940s wartime Brooklyn to 1960s and '70s Queens to present-day rural New England, Treyf captures the collision of youthful cravings and grown-up identities; it is a tale of what it means to come to yourself both in spite of and in honor to your past.
Elissa
Altman
is the author of the memoir Poor Man's Feast: a love story of comfort, desire, and the art of simple cooking, and the blog of the same name (poormansfeast.com). She writes the Washington Post column, "Feeding My Mother," and she has appeared on the TEDx stage."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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