Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager - Softcover

Cook, Langdon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594850860 ISBN 13: 9781594850868

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 2011

Synopsis

* Quirky, engaging book about the hot topic of sustainable foods
* Combines adventure with locavorism
* Delves into iconic Northwest staples, such as huckleberries, Dungeness crab, and morels

Foraging is not just a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past; it's a way to reconnect with the landscape. And Langdon Cook is not just your typical grocery cart-toting dad. For him, gourmet delicacies abound, free for the taking if we just open our eyes. As a result, he finds himself free-diving in icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a snaggletooth lingcod, armed with nothing more than a "Hawaiian sling." He tempts fate by eating mushrooms that may or may not be poisonous. He strings up a fly rod to chase after sea-run trout. He even pulls on the gardening gloves to collect stinging nettles. In wry, detailed prose, he traces his journey from wrangler of pre-packaged calories to connoisseur of coveted wild edibles. Structured around the seasons of the year, each chapter focuses on a specific food type and concludes with a recipe featuring the author's hard-won bounty, a savory stop to each adventure-filled morsel.

About this title

About the Author

LANGDON COOK has worked as a professional writer and editor his entire adult life. He was a reporter with the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Berkeley Voice before moving to Seattle to earn his MFA in fiction writing at the University of Washington, where he studied with well-known authors David Shields and Laura Kalpakian. In the late-90s he turned to the nascent Web, first with Microsoft's MSN and then Amazon.com, where he was a senior book editor. In 2004 he left Amazon to live in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son. More recently he has worked as a freelance magazine writer and editor for such publications as Conservation Magazine. His writing has appeared in Outside Magazine, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fisherman, The Stranger, and other publications. Lang received his B.A., cum laude, from Middlebury College in Vermont. He was the recipient of the Joyce Waddell Writing Award at the University of Washington, received the Margery Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference on a grant. Langdon's blog, Fat-Of-The-Land was named Best Local Foods Blog by Seattle Weekly in 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594850860
• ISBN 13: 9781594850868
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224