Feasting Wild

Lots of buzz for this book: The hardcover was an Amazon.com Best Nonfiction Book of 2020, a New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection, and named one of "The Ten Best Books About Travel of 2020” by Smithsonian Magazine Critically acclaimed: It received praise from the Wall Street Journal, Outside Magazine, Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly (starred review), as well as from Ed Yong, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ben Goldfarb, and Mark Kurlansky. And a tweet from Michael Pollan!  Wild foods have become increasingly popular as people seek to reconnect to ancient diets and food traditions, “clean” eating, and natural health remedies.  Feminist food book: Explores wild food from a uniquely feminist perspective, focusing on the knowledge of women, especially Indigenous women, relating to wild foods and ancient food traditions. Inside Noma restaurant: La Cerva visits one of the most exclusive restaurants in the world, Noma, in Copenhagen, to learn about their foraging program first-hand. She even goes looking for ramps in a cemetery with the Noma staff. Foraging is an increasingly popular pastime in North America and the UK, especially during the pandemic. Activism and environmental protection: Wild foods are more threatened than ever before by economic expansion, climate change, and food tourism. Feasting Wild explores all aspects of the threats to wild foods, especially the impact of their disappearance on Indigenous peoples and women. Strong Covid-19 relevance: Feasting Wild explores the potential dangerous outcomes of humans encroaching on wild spaces, including a potential increase in zoonotic diseases like Covid-19.