{"product_id":"feasting-wild-in-search-of-the-last-untamed-food-9781771645331","title":"Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Summer Reading Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eAn intense and illuminating travelogue\u003c\/strong\u003e... \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eoffer ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white gaze promoted by globetrotting eaters like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern. \u003cstrong\u003eLa Cerva combines environmental history with feminist memoir to craft a narrative that's more in tune with recent works by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Rush\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" --\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called \"wild foods\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants\u003c\/strong\u003e. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world's last untamed landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFeasting Wild\u003c\/em\u003e, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods\u003c\/strong\u003e. Throughout her travels, La Cerva reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods --including biodiversity, Indigenous and women's knowledge, a vital connection to nature, and delicious flavors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, La Cerva investigates the violent \"bush meat\" trade, tracking elicit delicacies from the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the dinner tables of Europe. In a Danish cemetery, she forages for wild onions with the esteemed staff of Noma. In Sweden--after saying goodbye to a man known only as The Hunter--La Cerva smuggles freshly-caught game meat home to New York in her suitcase, for a feast of \"heartbreak moose.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful, ambitious, and wide-ranging, \u003cem\u003eFeasting Wild\u003c\/em\u003e challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today, and introduces \u003cstrong\u003ean exciting new voice in food journalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eA memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure.\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e--Elizabeth Kolbert, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A food book with a truly original take.\" --Mark Kurlansky, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eSalt: A World History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Greystone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771645331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gina Rae La Cerva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36668339617948,"sku":"9781771645331","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2b43e867-7f7a-45b2-90b0-f43ed96089d0.jpg?v=1603917282","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/feasting-wild-in-search-of-the-last-untamed-food-9781771645331","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}