Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
Marilyn Stanley
, Andrea Pole
, Melissa Kohlman
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Siobhan Laskey
, Barry Kazimer
, Jude Castillo
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Emma Sim
, P. Thompson
, Meghan Whyte
, Dani Kat
, diana kirkwood
, joy mills
, Mary Therrien
, Randi Ann Doll
, Alex Henderson
, Rachel Edmonds
, Carl Scott
, Katherine Krige
, Rodney Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Megan Brodie
, Janet Meisner
, BJ Underwood
, Debbie Youngman
, Deana Bueley
, Kim Cappellina
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Robert Hykawy
, Deb Philippon
, Susan Terendy
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Linda Hall
, Catherine Westerberg
, Heather Norris
, Rebecca Dixon
, Margaret McKay
, Mary Lester
, Pat Johnston
, Caleb Nault
, Marin Beck
, Linda Meyer
, Susan Jang
, Heather Belliveau
, Catherine Young
, Huguette Lemieux
, Noelle Walsh
, Yolande Thivierge
, Laurie Burns
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Maria Mclean
, Maureen Brownlee
, Anne Range
, Melissa Poremba
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Ellen Clarke
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Nara Monteiro
, Natalie Mudri
, Janice Cournoyer
, Marjorie Roy
, Meradith Anderson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Lisa Mallia
, Veena Lin
, LJ Law
, zelda dwyer
, Margaret Jones
, Lynn Andrews
, Margaret Palmer
, Heather Chong
, Shayla Bradley
, Hoda Montazeri
, Debra Fisher
, Valerie Hildebrand
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Beth Dekoker
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, finn mulryan
, Kathleen Nightingale
, Natasa Ilic
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Melinda Poth
, Thelma Ball
, Karen Nordrum
, Lise Gaston
, Lorraine Lambie
, Derek Davidson
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joe Mitchell
, Chris Carvalho
, Carla MacDonald
, Cindy Lapena
, Lynn Hallson
, Marie Raynard
, Rachell Dolynchuk
, Caley Clements
, Lana Hood
, Julie Kaniak
, Stef Novakowski
, Linda Dessau
, Paula Adam
, Teree Hokanson
, Jilanna Eagles
, Jacob Cebulak
, Monica Geerts
, Remi Gunn
, Pam Keetch
, Diana Richardson
, Sandra Furlotte
, ruth schaeffer
, Sandra Perry
, Janet Baron
, Megan Bishop
, Mariana Stefo
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Crystal Inwood
, Carson Loveless
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, KERRILYNN SWEENEY
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Alice Meems
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Wanda Brine
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Cindy Bodini
, Jen Smith
, Angela Reynolds
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Vicki Bedford
, Rhona Brinkman
, Jennifer Beyak
, Sarah Stang
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Filomena Falocco
, Christine Lion
, Ken Gilmour
, ilona storie
, Marilyn Sorensen
, Whitney Wild
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Karen Kendrick
, Colleen McArthur
, Walter Quan
, Fin Macdonald
, Elaine Baptie
, Sandra Storey
, Linda Ludke
, Lynn Bechtel
, Maggie Keating
, Barbara Leckie
, C. Ray
, Denise Duvall
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Pamela Bruce
, Penelope Penner
, Pamela Humphrey
, Joann Horgan
, Anndee Newson
, Andrea Mack
, Jasmeet Gill
, Shannon Lee
, Anika Brandt
, Christopher Rossignol
editor@49thShelf.com
Part love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction, this offbeat memoir chronicles the unpredictable life of a young wife and mother on Gabriola Island.
In 1989, twenty-three-year-old Margot Fedoruk left Winnipeg and her volatile Slavic-Jewish family for the wilds of BC to work as a tree planter and to contemplate her mother’s untimely death from cancer. There, she met Rick Corless, a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver, and soon found herself pregnant and cooking vegetarian meals for meat-eating divers on Rick’s boat, The Buckaroo, as they travelled along the rugged northern BC coastline.
Eventually, the unlikely couple settled on Gabriola Island to raise two girls, dig for clams, keep chickens, clean houses, and make soap to sell at the local market. As she washed windows with stunning ocean views, Margot also wiped away lonely tears, determined not to repeat the same mistakes as she had witnessed during her parents’ marriage made in hell. Through dark humour, vivid descriptions, and quirky characters, Margot’s reflections on marriage, motherhood, isolation, food, and family paint an unforgettable portrait of a modern-day fishwife left behind to keep the home fires burning. True to its title, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives is a memoir infused with recipes, from the hearty Eastern European fare of Margot’s childhood to more adventurous coastal BC cuisine.
