Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His work has appeared in the Neoyorquino, la Revista The New York Times, la Reseña de libros del New York Times, Travel + Ocio, la London Review of Books, Nueva York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, y el Guardia, among other publications. He is the author of the novels Una vida de reemplazo, y No dejes que mi bebé haga rodeo. He teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program. He is the author of Savage Feast: Tres generaciones, dos continentes y una mesa (una memoria con recetas)., (Harper). In Soviet Belarus, where Fishman was born, good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected. Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Brooklyn. Festín Salvaje is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.