Author: Langdon Cook. Published by Skipstone, USA., 2009, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, with Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inch, 219 pages.
FAT OF THE LAND, Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, by Langdon Cook, is structured around the natural food available during the seasons of the year. Each chapter focuses on a specific food type, and each chapter concludes with a recipe featuring the harvesting of the author's hard-won bounty!
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 bushwhacks through rugged mountain forests in search of edible mushrooms. 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.
