Eat, because we are born to suffer

When do you eat soup with a fork? How to bake with half an egg? Why is pita not a bread? How does one stove cook and heat as well? What do a down duvet and kneidlach have in common? What is not required in food or sex? The answers to these questions and many others, are found in this book, from the over 100-year-old mother of the author, who lays down her inner truth, and the story of her life in your pots and on your plates. Two forces are at work in this book, which starts at the beginning of the 20th century all the way to our Facebook days: food and motherhood. Motherhood that knew how to love only through worry and food. In addition to a version of home cooking, what emerges here as a memory from home and as a childhood experience, like in many recipe books, but the most important recipe is the recipe for survival. it emphasizes the qualities of the 100-year-old mother who was blessed with intuition, vitality, sharp senses and skepticism. And above all a Passione to preserve, recycle and heal. In bold and revealing writing, with a comical edge and a bit tragic (except for the recipes which are strictly culinary) Amalia Argaman Barnea shares with you the secret of her mother's longevity who lived to tell her story, against the background of historical events since before the establishment of the State of Israel. The book also reflects a complex mother-daughter relationship, with which most of our generation can empathize, us, privileged with parents from a generation of giants which has disappeared from our lives. This book is a gift to yourself, blending food and soul, and for those you love, to tell you (I would assume): "Thank you, but you did not have to." April 1917. World War I is at its peak. In April the American president Wilson asks the Congress to declare war on Germany. 1917. In Russia, a revolution is taking place. The Bolsheviks, headed by Illich Lenin create a communist regime which will become the the Soviet Union April 1917. For the first time in history Britain recognizes Zionism, and signs the Balfour Declaration about the right of the Jewish People to immigrate to Israel and build its national home there. April 1917, in a small village town named Sambor in Poland, A baby was born to a hard-working Jewish family: Golda Perla Messner, Who became Zahava Barash from Jerusalem, 102 years old.