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Description of  Taste of Longing, The: Ethel Mulvany and her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruitthe unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. Read more