Kate’s 2¢: “The cancer-fighting kitchen: nourishing, big-flavor recipes for cancer treatment and recovery” 2nd Edition by Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson

“The cancer-fighting kitchen: nourishing, big-flavor recipes for cancer treatment and recovery” 2^nd Edition by Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   A few take-aways:

–Cancer is likened to a weed in the body’s garden. The intergraded oncologist aims to make the soil inhospitable for the weed to grow.

–The best is an organic, plant based, anti-oxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, whole foods diet.

–Blue berries, almonds, carrots, salmon, olives, cabbage, herbs and spices.

–Food as medicine; food can keep diseases at bay.

–Celebrate swallowing even the smallest sip of broth, if that’s all you can stomach.

–Between medication and sound nutrition, many side-effects can be reduced; tell your doctor when you’re experiencing side-effects.

–Soups can be the best solution.

–Vegetables have anti-inflammatory, anti- oxidant, high quality fats, and tumor pathway inhibitors. 

–Proteins rebuild the body; eggs, sea food, chicken.

–Perhaps, eat six small meals instead of three big ones

–Cold tonic smoothies can soothe sore mouths and provide needed nutrition.

   There are many wonderful recipes in this book that can easily be referenced by the sighted cook using the book or the blind cook using the BARB down-load. The authors are well-qualified and have several other cookbooks.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The cancer-fighting kitchen: nourishing, big-flavor recipes for cancer treatment and recovery DB96582

Katz, Rebecca; Edelson, Mat. Reading time: 9 hours, 36 minutes.

Read by Faith Potts.

Cooking

Collection of recipes designed to appeal to those undergoing treatment for cancer. Includes a discussion of treatment side effects plus tips for enhancing flavor, menu planning, and ways family and friends can help. Recipes include soups and broths, vegetables, proteins, tonics and elixirs, dressings, and sweets. 2017.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Ross

Kate’s 2¢: “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Ross

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I can understand how this book became controversial when it was published. It is a disgusting stream of consciousness. I found it more interesting researching the author.

From Good Reads:

   The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1969, and is perhaps Roth’s best-known book.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

Roth’s fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its “sensual, ingenious style” and for its provocative explorations of American identity.[1]

   Roth first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus; the collection so titled received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2][3] He became one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. His books twice received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, a character in many of Roth’s novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom’s WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, in Prague, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize.

   Roth’s work first appeared in print in the Chicago Review while he was studying, and later teaching, at the University of Chicago.[11][12][13] His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, contains the novella Goodbye,

   Roth’s first work, Goodbye, Columbus, was an irreverently humorous depiction of the life of middle-class Jewish Americans, and met controversy among reviewers, who were highly polarized in their judgments;[3] one criticized it as infused with a sense of self-loathing. In response, Roth, in his 1963 essay “Writing About Jews” (collected in Reading Myself and Others), maintained that he wanted to explore the conflict between the call to Jewish solidarity and his desire to be free to question the values and morals of middle-class Jewish Americans uncertain of their identities in an era of cultural assimilation and upward social mobility:

   The cry ‘Watch out for the goyim!’ at times seems more the expression of an unconscious wish than of a warning: Oh that they were out there, so that we could be together here! A rumor of persecution, a taste of exile, might even bring with it the old world of feelings and habits—something to replace the new world of social accessibility and moral indifference, the world which tempts all our promiscuous instincts, and where one cannot always figure out what a Jew is that a Christian is not.[25]

   In Roth’s fiction the exploration of “promiscuous instincts” within the context of Jewish lives, mainly from a male viewpoint, plays an important role. In the words of critic Hermione Lee:

Philip Roth’s fiction strains to shed the burden of Jewish traditions and proscriptions. … The liberated Jewish consciousness, let loose into the disintegration of the American Dream, finds itself deracinated and homeless. American society and politics, by the late sixties, are a grotesque travesty of what Jewish immigrants had traveled towards: liberty, peace, security, a decent liberal democracy.[26]

   While Roth’s fiction has strong autobiographical influences, it also incorporates social commentary and political satire, most obviously in Our Gang and Operation Shylock. From the 1990s on Roth’s fiction often combined autobiographical elements with retrospective dramatizations of postwar American life.    Roth described American Pastoral and the two following novels as a loosely connected “American trilogy”. Each of these novels treats aspects of the postwar era against the backdrop of the nostalgically remembered Jewish-American childhood of Nathan Zuckerman, in which the experience of life on the American home front during the Second World War features prominently.[citation needed]

   In much of Roth’s fiction, the 1940s, comprising Roth’s and Zuckerman’s childhood, mark a high point of American idealism and social cohesion. A more satirical treatment of the patriotism and idealism of the war years is evident in Roth’s comic novels, such as Portnoy’s Complaint and Sabbath’s Theater. In The Plot Against America, the alternate history of the war years dramatizes the prevalence of anti-Semitism and racism in America at the time, despite the promotion of increasingly influential anti-racist ideals during the war. In his fiction Roth portrayed the 1940s, and the New Deal era of the 1930s that preceded it, as a heroic phase in American history. A sense of frustration with social and political developments in the United States since the 1940s is palpable in the American trilogy and Exit Ghost, but had already been present in Roth’s earlier works that contained political and social satire, such as Our Gang and The Great American Novel. Writing about the latter, Hermione Lee points to the sense of disillusionment with “the American Dream” in Roth’s fiction: “The mythic words on which Roth’s generation was brought up—winning, patriotism, gamesmanship—are desanctified; greed, fear, racism, and political ambition are disclosed as the motive forces behind the ‘all-American ideals’.”[26]

   Although Roth’s writings often explored the Jewish experience in America, Roth rejected being labeled a Jewish-American writer. “It’s not a question that interests me. I know exactly what it means to be Jewish and it’s really not interesting,” he told the Guardian newspaper in 2005. “I’m an American.”[27]

Personal life[edit]

   While at Chicago, Roth met Margaret Martinson in 1956, who became his first wife in 1959. Their separation in 1963, and Martinson’s subsequent death in a car crash in 1968, left a lasting mark on Roth’s literary output. Martinson was the inspiration for female characters in several of Roth’s novels, including Lucy Nelson in When She Was Good and Maureen Tarnopol in My Life as a Man.[28]

Roth was an atheist who once said, “When the whole world doesn’t believe in God, it’ll be a great place.”[29][30] He also said during an interview with The Guardian: “I’m exactly the opposite of religious, I’m anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It’s all a big lie,” and “It’s not a neurotic thing, but the miserable record of religion—I don’t even want to talk about it. It’s not interesting to talk about the sheep referred to as believers. When I write, I’m alone. It’s filled with fear and loneliness and anxiety—and I never needed religion to save me.”[31]

   In 1990 Roth married his longtime companion, English actress Claire Bloom, with whom he had been living since 1976. In 1994 they divorced, and in 1996 Bloom published a memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House, that depicted Roth as a misogynist and control freak. Some critics have detected parallels between Bloom and the character Eve Frame in Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998).[10]

The novel Operation Shylock (1993) and other works draw on a post-operative breakdown[32][33][34] and Roth’s experience of the temporary side effects of the sedative Halcion (triazolam), prescribed post-operatively in the 1980s.[35][36]

Death, burial, and legacy[edit]

   Roth died at a Manhattan hospital of heart failure on May 22, 2018, at the age of 85.[37][38][39]

Roth was buried at the Bard College Cemetery in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where in 1999 he taught a class. He had originally planned to be buried next to his parents at the Gomel Chesed Cemetery in Newark, but changed his mind about fifteen years before his death, in order to be buried close to his friend the novelist Norman Manea.[40] Roth expressly banned any religious rituals from his funeral service, though it was noted that only one day after his burial a pebble had been placed on top of his tombstone in accordance with Jewish tradition.[41]

   Among the admirers of Roth’s work is famed New Jersey singer Bruce Springsteen. Roth read the musician’s autobiography Born to Run and Springsteen read Roth’s American Pastoral, I Married A Communist, and The Human Stain. Springsteen said of Roth’s work: “I’ll tell you, those three recent books by Philip Roth just knocked me on my ass … To be in his sixties making work that is so strong, so full of revelations about love and emotional pain, that’s the way to live your artistic life. Sustain, sustain, sustain.”[42]

From NLS/BARD/LOC: This cartridge was sent to me in the NLS’s rotating books on loan.