Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love

✍ Scribed by Lara Vapnyar

• Book ID: 110819744
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 125 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307377616
• ASIN: B001AL665G

✦ Synopsis

Each of Lara Vapnyar's six stories invites us into a world where food and love intersect, along with the overlapping pleasures and frustrations of Vapnyar's uniquely captivating characters. Meet Nina, a recent arrival from Russia, for whom colorful vegetables represent her own fresh hopes and dreams . . . Luda and Milena, who battle over a widower in their English class with competing recipes for cheese puffs, spinach pies, and meatballs . . . and Sergey, who finds more comfort in the borscht made by a paid female companion than in her sexual ministrations. They all crave the taste and smell of home, wherever—and with whomever—that may turn out to be. A roundup of recipes are the final taste of this delicious collection.