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 stuffed vine leaves herby
green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her
family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers' recipe books after they
both died that she began to explore that past for the first time. The result is a vivid
chronicle of displacement and escape retracing the complex network of journeys her family took
from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in search of safety and a better life
punctuated by the food they ate and cooked along the way. Today though these journeys and
this long tradition of migration would now be almost impossible. A beguiling mixture of
history memoir travel and food Air and Love is also a fresh and deeply human retelling of
some of the major stories of the twentieth century.
