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Surveillance and Summer Salads: Teresa Präauer’s “Cooking in the Wrong Century,” translated from German by Eleanor Updegraff
Perhaps this is YOU on a vacation; it is undeniably the reality of the characters in Tesera Präauer’s “Cooking in the Wrong Century,” translated by Eleanor Updegraff. Präauer’s English-language debut follows an unnamed cast of characters as their dinner party veers continuously and wildly off course, satirizing our contemporary excessive connection to social media, pseudo-intellectualism and multiculturalism, and punctuating these themes with a connection to home that can only come through the food of our past.