{"product_id":"all-the-wild-hungers-a-season-of-cooking-and-cancer-9781571313720","title":"All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer","description":"\"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine--a cook, collector of thrifted vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt--can't help but wonder: \u003ci\u003efeed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?\u003c\/i\u003e And so she commits herself to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving headfirst into the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these essays, Babine ponders the intimate connections between food, family, and illness. What draws us toward food metaphors to describe disease? What is the power of language, of naming, in a medical culture where patients are too often made invisible? How do we seek meaning where none is to be found--and can we create it from scratch? And how, Babine asks as she bakes cookies with her small niece and nephew, does a family create its own food culture across generations? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Generous and bittersweet, \u003ci\u003eAll the Wild Hungers\u003c\/i\u003e is an affecting chronicle of one family's experience of illness and of a writer's culinary attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Karen Babine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660147421340,"sku":"9781571313720","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0dbb6436-d9b6-4292-b128-f129cfa37534.jpg?v=1603896204","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-the-wild-hungers-a-season-of-cooking-and-cancer-9781571313720","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}