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Cooking tips for desperate fishwives : an Island memoir / Margot Fedoruk.

by Fedoruk, Margot.

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Heritage House Publishing, 2022.

Fedoruk, Margot.

Fedoruk, Margot -- Family.

Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.

Cooking (Seafood)

Gabriola Island (B.C.) -- Biography.

9781772033953 (pbk.)

viii, 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes recipes.

"Margot Fedoruk was born a prairie girl, whose only exposure to seafood was the stained flesh of smoked goldeye served cold with mashed potatoes on stifling Winnipeg nights. Then, at age twenty-three, she broke free from her stormy Slavic-Jewish upbringing and set out for the wilds for British Columbia. There, Margot, planted trees topless, marched her steeltoed boots across the burn landscape, and met the love of her life -- a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver. A reborn west coaster, she embraced her new life and the ocean's bounty -- fresh scallops plucked from the sea, wasabi-covered sashimi smouldering on her tongue, and the exotic orange roe of the red sea urchin. This is the story of a family, whose livelihood depends on a spiny round creature that clings to the bottom of the sea, and the woman at the centre of it, clinging precariously to her identity as a modern-day fishwife. An unforgettable memoir infusedd with mouth watering recipes, 'Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives' is equal parts love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction." --Back cover.

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