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Feasting Wild
Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food | Gina Rae La Cerva
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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.
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peacegypsy
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Last month‘s Literati Atlas Obscura pick. A different read for me, but I‘ve heard it‘s very well-written.

Chelsea.Poole I love Atlas Obscura! 3y
peacegypsy @Chelsea.Poole Me, too! 3y
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I have decide to sign up for my first readathon! #feastmode

This is the first year not spending Thanksgiving with my family! I am sad but it is necessary. So I will be cooking and trying to take a break from my crazy career!

Thank you @Hestapleton I look forward to reading! My goal is 10 hours of reading. I know this a modest goal, but I usually only get to read for pleasure for 1-2 hours a day.

Hestapleton Sounds like we‘re living the same life! No family and crazy work schedules. Hope you gets lots of distraction from your books! 4y
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tholmz
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This was absolutely phenomenal and one of the best written books I have read all year.

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Facinating! It really makes you think of how we especially in western countries treat, produce, and eat food now compared to the ways our ancestors did and even other parts of the world do today. I learned so much! A lot of research, background knowledge and love of foods went into this. If you enjoy food writing, memoir, nature and travelogue writing this book is definitely for you. It will be available in the US May 26th and Canada June 2nd.

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