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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal
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Include books by the same authorHappy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
Langdon Cook · 296 pages
"In the dark corners of America's forests grow culinary treasures. Chefs pay top dollar to showcase these elusive and beguiling ingredients on their menus. Whether dressing up a filet mignon with smoky morels or shaving luxurious white truffles over pasta, the most elegant restaurants across the country now feature an abundance of wild mushrooms. The mushroom hunters, by contrast, are a rough lot.
The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
Robin Mather · 266 pages
"A charming ode (with recipes) to eating well and locally, on $40 dollars per week, from a recently unemployed food-journalism veteran. In 2009, Robin Mather found herself unemployed. She consequently moved to rural Michigan, where she committed to eating three home-cooked, seasonal, and local meals a day. In essays that chronicle a year of her ambitious project, Mather explores the confusion su
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan · 450 pages
What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter · 276 pages
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farmNovella Carpenter loves cities—the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can’t shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents’ disastrous mi
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Alisa Smith, J.B. MacKinnon · 272 pages
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
Eugenia Bone · 358 pages
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
John Kallas · 288 pages
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
Lee Allen Peterson · 330 pages
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Rene Redzepi · 354 pages
Milk skin with grass -- The perfect storm -- René's diary -- Portrait of a Nordic chef -- Time and place -- The weather recipes -- The raw materials -- Everyone at Noma.
Food for Free
Richard Mabey · 256 pages
This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer. Over 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating information about their use throughout the ages. The recipes are listed so that you can plan your foray with a feast in mind. This is the ideal book for both nature-lover
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
Mardi Jo Link · 257 pages
"[A] memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure, and reclaims her life on to what matters most"--Provided by publisher.
The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year
Spring Warren · 335 pages
Growing a Farmer
Kurt Timmermeister · 336 pages
A former Seattle urbanite and restaurateur describes the realities of establishing a profitable farm on Vashon Island, his growing awareness of the relationship between food and its sources, and the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs.
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Steve Dublanica · 302 pages
Taken from the popular blog, WaiterRant.net, tells the story from the server's point of view about customer stupidity, arrogance, misbehavior and even human grace.
Give a Girl a Knife
Amy Thielen · 315 pages
"A beautifully written memoir that follows one woman from her childhood in a dysfunctional Midwestern family to becoming a chef in New York City and finally her triumphant return home to reclaim and redeem Midwestern cooking. Amy Thielen, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table, traces her journey from Park Rapids, Minnesota, to cooking professionally under some o
Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
Isabel Vincent · 218 pages
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. While helping Edward's faraway daughter by checking on her nonagenarian dad, Isabel has no idea that he will end up changing her life.
The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
Cathy Erway · 320 pages
In the city where dining is a sport, a gourmand swears off restaurants (even takeout) for two years, rediscovering the economical, gastronomical joy of home cooking. Includes thirty original recipes.
Driving Hungry: A Memoir
Layne Mosler · 313 pages
"A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her taxista
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
Kristin Kimball · 276 pages
When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview an organic farmer called Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter a pig. By the next morning she was tucking into sizzling homemade sausages drizzled with warm maple syrup, and within a few months she
Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza
Colin Atrophy Hagendorf · 209 pages
"Over the course of two years, a twenty-something punk rocker eats a cheese slice from every pizzeria in New York City, gets sober, falls in love, and starts a blog that captures headlines around the world--he is the Slice Harvester, and this is his story. Since its arrival on US shores in 1905, pizza has risen from an obscure ethnic food to an iconic symbol of American culture. It has visited us
Stuffed
Patricia Volk · 256 pages
"In a restaurant family, you're never just hungry - you're starving to death. And you're never full - you're stuffed.". "Patricia Volk's family is as American (background: Austrian-Jewish) as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark; each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob w
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
Luisa Weiss · 310 pages
The story of how one thoroughly confused, kitchen-mad perfectionist broke off her engagement to a handsome New Yorker, quit her dream job, and found her way to a new life, a new man, and a new home in Berlin -- one recipe at a time