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Just wanted to share an enthusiastic book recommendation with y'all. The other week I bought a wonderful volume called _Full Moon Feast_ by Jessica Prentice. It's the coolest thing, part cookbook and part meditation on food and culture. The author is a student of folk foodways and she organizes the book around a theme of 13 moons (because there are technically more than 12 in our calendar year). She studied old almanacs and the names given to moons -- many of us have heard of the blue moon, harvest moon, sugar moon, etc. Then she uses each moon for an essay, followed by recipes.
I love the way it is making me more conscious and appreciative of food and eating.
I don't know this woman or have any financial interest in the book. I'm just really digging it, and wanted to share it with some folks who might also enjoy it! I'd also be interested to hear recommendations from others about food/cookbooks that you love dearly.
I love the way it is making me more conscious and appreciative of food and eating.
I don't know this woman or have any financial interest in the book. I'm just really digging it, and wanted to share it with some folks who might also enjoy it! I'd also be interested to hear recommendations from others about food/cookbooks that you love dearly.
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Re: My new favorite cookbook
Wed, December 12, 2007 - 12:25 PMI got this book back in August, along with another 10 from the same publishing house, and I have not yet gotten to read it. I look forward to it. -
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Re: My new favorite cookbook
Wed, December 12, 2007 - 2:07 PMI'm halfway through it right now, and I'm loving it!
I feel almost redundant now having recently read The Omnivore's Dilemma, Nourishing Traditions, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, The Untold Story of Milk, Wild Fermentation... when I could have read this first and gotten a LOT of the best stuff from all of these books.
I can only imagine what the rest of the book will bring- how many other books will be so well-represented?
I have some frozen asparagus. I think when my brothers are in town for Xmas I'm going to try her recipe for baked egg-asparagus-and-stuff.
So many recipes look good...
I don't know how I feel about her attitude about her 30th birthday party. I would have been very angry. Not that holding a grudge does anyone any good, but I'd take a step back from that "friend" -and any food she prepared- after that.
I have identified with her strongly and appreciated the inclusion of her own eating history: overblown ideas of what is healthy, ill-informed opinions of meat and vegetarianism, struggles with emotional eating and NOT-eating... I can relate to so much of it. -
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Re: My new favorite cookbook
Sat, December 15, 2007 - 9:20 AMPart of me wants to actually read the book seasonally, i.e. not to read "ahead" of the time we're in. So far I've read the first three chapters (Hunger Moon, Sap Moon, Egg Moon) and I kinda want to stall before moving into the moons of early spring.
I really want to make the Golden Vegetable Bisque, esp. since historically I've been quite prejudiced toward root vegetables. Parsnips, turnips? Keep them away! But maybe it's time for me to be more open-minded; it's also a different experience to eat things I've cooked myself. The book did inspire me to serve borscht with latkes this year, although we did a vegetarian version and Prentice's recipe calls for beef broth. Also want to try the Maple-Vanilla Panna Cruda...mmmmm...
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