Le Livre de recettes / The Recipe Book

From July 1944 to April 1945, Lisa Garnier’s grandmother, Gisèle Chartraire was deported to the German concentration camp Ravensbrück. During the imprisonment she made a small notebook for writing down recipes told by her fellow prisoners – recipes exchanged in the heart of hell where hunger rubbed shoulders with the absurd and arbitrary. What does the little notebook tell us about survival? Was it just about imaginary meals? Le Livre de recettes / The Recipe Book is an intimate story, in wo