Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
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- ISBN13: 9780307588012
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail take up in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a casual choice. She has met thousands of readers, stayed in their homes, and sat around kitchen tables sharing tales and food and laughter.
In this essay collection, Gelman includes her own further adventures, as well as persons of writers and readers telling tales of the shared humanity they veteran in their travels. The tales are amusing and sad, poignant and tender, familiar and bizarre. They will make you laugh and weep and maybe even send you off on your own adventure. Also included are fabulous international recipes such as vegetarian dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), chiles en nogada (stuffed poblano chiles topped with a white cream sauce with walnuts and a sprinkle of pomegranate seeds), and ho mok (an extraordinary fish-coconut custard from Thailand). Pleased reading—and bon appétit, selamat makan, buen provecho!
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Tie is the self-proclaimed theme of Rita Golden Gelman’s life. She hearkens back to a time of yore by calling herself a modern-day nomad. In Female Nomad and Friends, she is in hunter-gather mode collecting recipes from around the globe via submissions to her website. They are meticulously blended with real-life tales of 41 women who take a leap of faith and reach out to another human being – whether across town or across the world. Every hint of zest is appreciated and recognizable in this culinary community of over 25 ethnic dishes.
Golden Gelman upped the ante even further by donating all of the proceeds of the book to a erudition fund. It will enable high school graduates in the slums of India to attend employment schools. The funds are being administered through a Maryland chapter of the Rotary Club. With a soul full of itchy feet, she may not have a stable take up, but Golden Gelman certainly does not equate the absence of hearth and home with a lack of responsibility.
The book is divided into five sections: Connecting, Mixed Messages, Language, Passion and Food. The recipes range from the familiar – Grandma’s fried chicken – to the exotic – sun-dried worms. But, the downright peculiar are thankfully omitted (Filipino head of the dog, anyone?).
Among the accompanying tales, there are several stand-outs. One woman experiences the essential in hospitality when an elderly woman offers to carry her on her back across a flooded Vietnamese street. Another answers a want ad for a housekeeper and discovers a lonely Alaskan looking for a wife. A Swedish exchange student experiences her first Prayer, Texas-style. An American professor in France is invited to the sumptuous table of her student’s family tree. An orphaned Iraqi girl makes a tie with an American woman before and after the 2003 invasion. A visiting couple who miss their ferry stop are rowed upstream against the current by a kind native in Paraguay.
But, many dangers exist for women traveling alone, and these perils are not ignored. One woman is raped by a hotel manager in India and later returns home to learn that she is pregnant. Another drinks the water on a South Pacific island and succumbs to dysentery.
Overall, women the world over are made up of the same ingredients, it’s how they are blended that mark who they are.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
These essays are very diverse in style and theme, including poignant tales alongside the humorous, as well as in location. Locations range from large and well-known American cities to tiny Skujas in Latvia. The reader travels vicariously to tiny towns in Italy, France and Greece, and to cities large and tiny in Vietnam, Israel, Iraq and Turkey, plus copious additional locations.
One of the sweetest essays is a letter of thanks to a large chain grocery expressing gratitude for a special kindness a clerk showed to the writer’s ill mother in California. Additional essays tell of a kindness communicated even when people can’t communicate through language. There are also romances and adventures.
Some of the adventures are in eating, such as in the essay titled “Cow Feet Soup for Breakfast.” Several recipes are included with the essays, but thankfully there isn’t one for cow feet soup. There is a recipe for Sun-Dried Mopane Worms. I won’t be trying that one, but there are several recipes that look very tasty and I will try. Though I like to cook, my favorite essay title is “Any Pan is a No-Stick Pan if You No-Cook in It!”
Many of the trips were taken for goodhearted reasons, and the publication of the book is also goodhearted. All profits will be used for scholarships for the children of India’s slums who graduate from high school. The leader had previously learned during a year in New Delhi that it was very unusual for a slum child to graduate from high school, much less receive any additional literary or employment training. She started raising money for the scholarships in 2005.
I painstakingly loved this book and highly recommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Brilliant book! My itchy feet re-kicked in! I was pleased to see that not all the authors were “young” women. I reflect Rita “and Friends” are doing a wonderful thing by helping persons young people in New Delhi. Buy this book and you’ll get a excellent read and a excellent feeling!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
These are delightful small essays on travel experiences. The shortness of each “chapter” is perfect for beach reading or, if you are my spouse, bathroom reading. The recipes, on the additional hand, seemed tossed in with small rhyme or reason.
It is an enjoyable book. I will pass it on to a few friends I know will delight in it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I have devoured this book…in more ways than one. I was lost in its pages and transported from my reading nook to far-off countries with exotic sounding names. These are tales of connecting with different cultures all over the world. I laughed and cried, but mostly felt like we are all connected, no matter where we are from or where we travel to.
I was stirred directly from reading to cooking the recipes linked to each tale. They are as tasty as the words each woman wrote. This is a must read book!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5