Milk Fed
Melissa Broder
13 €
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Coup de coeur
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"But my favourite was the sesame chicken. I liked the way the sweetness contrasted with the spice, also that there were no vegetables in it."
In a bowl combine honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, a finely sliced garlic clove, an inch of peeled and chopped fresh ginger, sesame oil and sesame seeds. Cut boneless chicken thighs into bite-sized pieces and mix with 1/2 cup of cornstarch and salt and pepper. Heat vegetable oil in a large pan and fry chicken until golden. Add the sauce to the pan and cook until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce slightly thickened. Serve with sliced spring onions and a sprinkle of sesame seeds.
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times'A revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating' Entertainment Weekly'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn’t get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesRachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam – by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family – and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche – both sacred and profane.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Feb 2022
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 22 mm
ISBN: 9781408897126
