A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods - and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued
A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods - and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued
Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was found in the wild. Today, so-called 'wild foods' are becoming expensive commodities, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva traces our relationship to wild foods and shows what we sacrifice when we domesticate them - including biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge, and an important connection to nature. Along the way, she samples wild foods herself, sipping elusive bird's nest soup in Borneo and smuggling Swedish moose meat home in her suitcase.
Thoughtful, ambitious, and wide-ranging, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today.
'A memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.' - Elizabeth Kolbert,New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Sixth Extinction
'A food book with a truly original take.' - Mark Kurlansky,New York Timesbestselling author ofSalt: A World Histor
A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods - and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued
Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was found in the wild. Today, so-called 'wild foods' are becoming expensive commodities, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva traces our relationship to wild foods and shows what we sacrifice when we domesticate them - including biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge, and an important connection to nature. Along the way, she samples wild foods herself, sipping elusive bird's nest soup in Borneo and smuggling Swedish moose meat home in her suitcase.
Thoughtful, ambitious, and wide-ranging, Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today.
'A memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.' - Elizabeth Kolbert,New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Sixth Extinction
'A food book with a truly original take.' - Mark Kurlansky,New York Timesbestselling author ofSalt: A World Histor
With 130 new recipes organised into twenty menus,Feastingis about creating a reason to connect and celebrate with family and friends.Karen invites us to choose just one delicious dish, put together...
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