Bonny Reichert, HOW TO SHARE AN EGG: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bonny Reichert—chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor—joins Zibby to discuss HOW TO SHARE AN EGG, a transformative, beautifully written culinary memoir about the relationship between food, family, sustenance, and survival. Bonny shares how growing up in the shadow of her father’s Holocaust survival shaped her identity and how food became the vehicle for telling his story. She describes the power of recreating lost family recipes, the emotional challenges of writing about trauma, and the ordinary struggles of life—parenting, loss, and reinvention.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
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0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.5	Bonnie Riker is the author of How to Share an Egg, a true story of hunger, love, and plenty.
0:50.1	Bonnie is a national magazine award-winning journalist.
0:52.8	She has been an editor at Today's Parent and
0:55.4	Chattelaine and a columnist and regular contributor to the globe and male. When she turned 40,
1:01.5	she had an hour never feeling in her bones and quit her job to enroll in culinary school,
1:05.8	which by the way she writes all about in the book. After that, she began to explore her
1:09.5	relationship with food on the page,
1:11.4	seeing her childhood in the restaurant business, and her background as the daughter of a Holocaust
1:15.3	survivor in a new light. Bonnie was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and lives in Toronto with her
1:20.3	husband and little dog Bruno. Her three almost adult children come and go. She holds a master
1:24.8	of fine art in creative nonfiction and teaches writing at the
1:28.0	University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. How to Share an Egg is her first book.
1:32.8	Welcome, Bonnie. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about how to share an egg,
1:38.1	which, as you know, I have been raving about and I loved and was so good, and I am excited to talk to you
1:43.5	about it. Me too. I'm excited.
1:46.0	So tell listeners what the book is about. The book is, I call it a memoir wrapped around a family
1:52.3	story. And really, I grew up in the shadow of this dark family history. My father is a
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