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Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity

Description: Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity Hardcover Product Overview Format: Hardcover A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large.Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation on what it means to tend to others and to ourselves--and how the two things work hand in hand. Priya Basil explores how food--and the act of offering food to others --are used to express love and support. Weaving together stories from her own life with knowledge gleaned from her Sikh heritage; her years spent in Kenya, India, Britain, and Germany; and ideas from Derrida, Plato, Arendt, and Peter Singer, Basil focuses an unexpected and illuminating light on what it means to be both a host and a guest. Lively, wide-ranging, and impassioned, Be My Guest is a singular work, at once a deeply felt plea for a kinder, more welcoming world and a reminder that, fundamentally, we all have more in common than we imagine.

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Brand: Knopf

ISBN10: 0525657851

ISBN13: 9780525657859

Book Title: Be My Guest : Reflections ON Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity

Item Length: 7.4in

Item Height: 0.8in

Item Width: 5.8in

Author: Priya Basil

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: General, Customs & Traditions, Essays, Essays & Narratives

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2020

Genre: Cooking, Social Science, Philosophy

Item Weight: 10.8 Oz

Number of Pages: 144 Pages

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