Alice’s Book by Karina Urbach
Published by MacLehose Press
Price £20
Pages 368
ISBN 9781529416305
In the 1930s, Alice Urbach ran her own cookery school in Vienna and her cookbook was a bestseller in German-speaking countries. Forced to flee to England in 1938, she later discovered that her book had been stolen by the Nazis, reissued and published in 1939 under a male Aryan pseudonym. Using family letters, old cassettes and detailed archival research, her historian granddaughter has written an engrossing and moving portrait of this extraordinary woman’s long and eventful life - she was still cooking on American television shows into her 90s -and of her sons, Otto and Karl, whose stories are also quite remarkable.
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