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Air and Love

A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

Or Rosenboim

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English
Picador
14 October 2025
'This is a moving memoir about how recipes are formed by migration, love and loss, even within a single family' - Bee Wilson, author of The Secret of Cooking

'A fascinating book. ''Food of the road': through memory, history, recipes - and love - a family, and an era's, complex story is movingly traced' - Judith Flanders, author of Rites of Passage

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration.

As a child, Or Rosenboim's knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her - round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, deep-pink stuffed quinces and herby green rice with a squeeze of lemon juice. It was only after reading their recipe books once they had both died that she began to understand their complicated past.

Taking us from Samarkand and Riga to the Middle East, Air and Love is a deeply human retelling of some of the major moments of the twentieth century, and a family story of migration and belonging, suffused with recipes of the food made along the way.
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Imprint:   Picador
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9781529098129
ISBN 10:   1529098122
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr Or Rosenboim is an intellectual historian specializing in twentieth-century political ideas. She is Director of the Centre for Modern History at City University of London. She is a trained pastry chef (Cordon Bleu, Paris), and the founder of The Migrants' Supper Club in London. She is the author of the award-winning book The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950. She has written for various international magazines and websites, and co-authored with Ilana Efrati an art and food book, Orto: Nature, Inspiration, Food. She has lived in Tel Aviv, Bologna, Paris, Los Angeles, Cambridge and Florence.

Reviews for Air and Love: A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

This is a moving memoir about how recipes are formed by migration, love and loss, even within a single family -- Bee Wilson, author of <i>The Secret of Cooking</i> A fascinating book. ‘’Food of the road’: through memory, history, recipes — and love — a family, and an era’s, complex story is movingly traced -- Judith Flanders, author of <i>Rites of Passage</i>


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