How to Share an Egg

 How to Share an Egg was a delightful memoir written by Bonny Reichert.  

Though there were no recipes in the book, which I was hoping for, I always find them an added bonus, this was an interesting memoir about what it is like to grow up the child of a Holocaust survivor.  We each grow up through both nature and nurture and it is always fascinating to try and figure out what the combination is that makes us who we are.  

Bonny is the child of a father who was a Holocaust survivor. He escaped the war and tries to down play the experience he went through to his children.  He always tries to have a very positive outlook on life.  He looks for the good in every situation.  He tells his children to be happy and not take things too seriously, not to work too hard.  

But Bonny takes on the guilt of having a wonderful, safe and happy life knowing that her father suffered in his early years.  She has trouble enjoying the present and feels guilty about her father's past.

This is the story of how she and her father relate to each other through food.  There is a family restaurant business and Bonny finds the way to communicate with her father best is through recipes of foods he remembers from his childhood before the atrocities of the war.  This is the unfolding of Bonny's life and where se finds herself fitting in.  We hear parts of her father's story and the family does go back to Poland and taste some memorable foods together.  

The reader will have to find their own recipes so they can taste the foods recreated in the book.  But you can always share an egg.