Grandma's recipe

Das Buch Alice: Wie die Nazis das Kochbuch meiner Großmutter raubten

【Editor's Recommendation】
📚 “Good food has a poetic flavor. When you encounter such dishes, I hope you will think of me, an ambassador for delicious food.”
📚 “My book has its own destiny.”
★A woman, with her love and persistence for food and cooking, awakens and becomes independent in a lost life, surviving the horrors of war and escape★A family's fragmentation and thrilling escape under the iron hoof of the Nazis and war★The first in-depth disclosure of the Nazis' systematic theft of intellectual property★A special chapter tells the thrilling "Shanghai Past", and the Chinese version exclusively includes old photos of Shanghai during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression🍽️Historian Karina Urbach uses a large number of family letters, heritage materials, archives and interviews to restore the legendary story of my grandmother and her family at "pixel level".
🍽️The birth of an independent Viennese woman—After a failed traditional marriage, Alice realized, "I could no longer rely on men. Men seemed unable to cope with the problems of the new era." With her exceptional culinary skills, she dominated Vienna's upper-crust dinner scene, opened a cooking school, and published a best-selling cookbook. She continued to teach cooking classes at the age of 92.
The Nazis burned books they disliked. But what happened to those valuable books they couldn't bear to burn? They quietly omitted them. By reconstructing the theft of my grandmother's best-selling cookbook, this book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth study of the "Aryanization" of Jewish books and intellectual property during the Nazi era.
🍽️The author of this book is also an excellent historical novelist. She uses vivid writing to structure the material for a complete movie - persecution, murder, deception, imprisonment in concentration camps, escape, rescue, friendship, espionage, falling into despair, starting a new life... It is exciting, as if watching a historical blockbuster.
🍽️ Highly recommended by BBC Radio 4's "Women's Hour", Der Spiegel, the Financial Times, the Times and other famous media.
【Content Introduction】
Alice Urbach, a Viennese Jewish girl, loved cooking from a young age. She had an unhappy marriage to an alcoholic and gambler who squandered her entire dowry. After his death, Alice relied on her exceptional culinary skills to support her family independently, building a successful career, opening a cooking school and publishing a best-selling cookbook. Under Nazi rule, she lost her home and career and fled to England, where she worked as a maid for a wealthy woman in a castle and later cared for Jewish girls displaced by the war in a children's home. Her youngest son was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. Her eldest son briefly fled to Shanghai before immigrating to the United States, where he became an intelligence officer and fought against the Nazis. After the war, Alice moved to New York and started a new life. Upon returning to Vienna, she discovered her best-selling cookbook was still available, but with a strange man's name printed on the cover. Did this self-proclaimed "culinary master" in the book really exist? Who was he? Could Alice get her book back?
To research her grandmother's "stolen" recipe, the author, Karina Urbach, Alice's granddaughter, traveled to archives in Vienna, London, and Washington, unearthing letters, tapes, and video files long thought lost. These documents reveal the legendary fate of Alice's family and a hidden chapter in Germany's Nazi history of crimes: the systematic theft of Jewish intellectual property by the Nazis.
Alice and her family's saga is moving, packed with captivating elements—persecution, murder, deception, imprisonment, escape, rescue, friendship, and espionage—like a captivating film. The fate of Alice's cookbook is even more poignant. As Ben's book reveals, for Alice, the stolen cookbook symbolizes her entire "stolen" life.
【Media Recommendation】
A remarkable and important story.
— BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour This is a remarkable book that describes the gradual deprivation of Alice Urbach's freedom.
—Der Spiegel
A gripping and highly original 20th-century family history, with invaluable insights into the "Aryanization" of Jewish books during the Nazi era.
—Financial Times
What the historian has unearthed is complete movie material—persecution, murder, fraud, imprisonment, escape, rescue, friendship, espionage… Urbach’s narrative is thrilling and cinematic.
— Der Tagesspiegel
Author Karina Urbach reconstructs this personal destiny not only through family correspondence and recorded interviews from her grandmother's estate, but also through extensive archival material... Alice Urbach's granddaughter and a qualified historian, she understands the dangers of lacking emotional distance and, as promised in her preface, manages to write this book without sentimentality. This in itself is an achievement, and the facts are moving enough.
—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Provocative, moving, and insightful, Karina Urbach has written a wonderful book about a strong woman who was resilient and determined to share any happiness she had with others.
—Süddeutsche Newsletter
Karina Urbach has written an extraordinary family history and history of Nazi crime. It is also a lesson in perfidy, anti-Semitism, greed, and wantonness, the repercussions of which resonate today. It is also a document of resistance and a refusal to yield to injustice.
—Taz
Thrilling, deeply moving, and deeply informative – this family story deserves to be high on the bestseller lists.
—WDR "Hier und Heute"
Unable to put the book down... Urbach also retells the tragic story of the Holocaust in unforgettable prose.
—AN Wilson, British columnist
This is a fascinating book...focusing on a little-known aspect of the history of Nazi looting.
—The Times

2024-02-01

人民文学出版社

450

9787020184309