Book & Author: How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

When food is more than sustenance, when it becomes memory, language, and love, what do we carry with each meal? 

In How to Share an Egg, Bonny Reichert, chef, journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, tells a story of inheritance shaped not just by trauma, but by tenderness. What begins as a daughter’s instinct to nourish becomes an exploration of identity, motherhood, grief, and the quiet ways that memory endures at the table. 

The memoir traces how food can hold secrets and how cooking becomes an act of remembrance. Reichert resurrects lost recipes, relives formative meals, and reflects what it means to keep someone alive in the rituals of daily life. Her story is a testament to the power of small gestures to hold great meaning. 

Reichert will be joined in conversation by Louisa Kung Liu Chu, renowned restaurant critic at the Chicago Tribune, James Beard Award nominee, and former Michelin chef. Together, they will explore how family, faith, and food intersect across generations.  

Book signing to follow.  

Free to the public. Reservations required.