{"product_id":"feasting-wild-in-search-of-the-last-untamed-food-9781771649155","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\u003eA gift for foodies, nature lovers, and fans of Anthony Bourdain or \u003cem\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\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. 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