{"product_id":"like-wafers-in-honey-a-novel-leah-eskin","title":"Like Wafers in Honey: A Novel (Leah Eskin)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThis beautiful novel, a survival story and a cultural archive, honors a nearly vanished world through narrative and recipes, showing how memory, food, and storytelling can resist erasure.\u003c\/em\u003e” ―Yotam Ottolenghi, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJerusalem: A Cookbook\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOttolenghi Comfort\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis debut novel from food writer Leah Eskin of the Chicago Tribune combines the historical sweep and emotional power of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Invisible Bridge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Julie Orringer and the resonant use of food and recipes of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLike Water for Chocolate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Laura Esquivel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story opens on the mountaintop town of Pitigliano, Italy, once called Little Jerusalem for its vibrant, centuries-old Jewish community. But the year is 1943. Mussolini has enacted anti-Jewish laws across Italy, and the family of Stella Fortuna struggles to maintain any sense of their former life. Then one night a neighbor comes to their door holding a ricotta pudding and tells them “\u003cem\u003eYou must leave now. You’re in grave danger.\u003c\/em\u003e” The Nazis have arrived to help the Fascists of Italy enact their own Final Solution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48414506582274,"sku":null,"price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/81G2lBT75EL._SL1500.jpg?v=1788049670","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/like-wafers-in-honey-a-novel-leah-eskin","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}