![]() Now, at the risk of saying something obvious to the point of being idiotic, food and romance are the same thing. Rachel gives us recipes for mashed potato, sorrel soup, and bread pudding. Rachel eats shrimp curry, chicken stuffed with lemons, and Uncle Seymour’s beef borscht. It practically calls out for a languorous afternoon in the park. ![]() Heartburn yearns to be read in a single sitting. Thelma has “a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb,” and makes puddings that Rachel describes as “gluey.” Mark has an affair with Thelma, the wife of a government official. Rachel, a food writer, is married to Mark, a political journalist. ![]() ![]() Revenge, and near-perfection, respectively.Ī semi-autobiographical, bittersweet comic masterpiece about infidelity, neurosis, and pregnancy, Heartburn is a book that yearns to be read in a single sitting. What, then, drove Nora Ephron-journalist, screenwriter, director-to write such a book? And why, 35 years on from its publication and its later adaption into a film starring Meryl Streep, does this novel about high(ish) American society still sing as sweetly as a roasted shoulder of lamb on a Sunday afternoon? ![]()
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