Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France

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Author Kitty Morse will discuss her new book 'Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France.' This book was written after she discovered her great-grandfather's journal chronicling the advance of the Germans in Le Grand Est (Alsace Lorraine) between April and December 1940 and two notebooks filled with recipes written in her great-grandmother’s hand in a suitcase left to her by her mother. Bitter Sweet takes place in and around her mother’s birthplace, Châlons-sur-Marne (now Châlons-en-Champagne.) Blanche Lévy-Neymarck, Morse's maternal great-grandmother, died at Auschwitz in 1944 along with one of her daughters and her son-in-law. Her husband Prosper, an army surgeon in WWI, was twice the recipient of the Légion d'Honneur. This book is not just the story of a family torn apart by war, but features seventy unique recipes that shows the rich history of a family.