Feasting Wild

Examines the transformation of wild food from nutritional necessity to luxury commodity, and what this says about our relationship to nature Wild harvesting and foraging are recent trends that continue to grow in popularity Intertwining a personal narrative with a literary exploration of wild foods, LaCerva travels the world pursuing questions about our relationship with wild food  Explores the crucial role of women and Indigenous people’s knowledge of plants and animals to scientific discovery, which has been suppressed by colonialism and exploitation  A geographer and environmental anthropologist, GinaRae LaCerva’s award-winning narrative writing has been published by THE Magazine, MIT Press, Sage Magazine, and The Santa Fe Journal, as well as top scholarly journals  Will appeal to readers who like Michael Pollan and Mark Kurlansky, as well as readers who like memoirs written by adventurous women, such as Cheryl Strayed and Helen MacDonald