num_pages: 336
description: Two centuries ago nearly half the North American diet was found in the wild. Today so-called wild foods are becoming expensive commodities served to the wealthy in top restaurants. In Feasting Wild geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva traces our relationship to wild foods and shows what we sacrifice when we domesticate themincluding biodiversity Indigenous knowledge and an important connection to nature.Along the way she samples wild foods herself sipping elusive birds nest soup in Borneo and smuggling Swedish moose meat home in her suitcase. Thoughtful ambitious and wide-ranging Feasting Wild challenges us to take a closer look at the way we eat today.
language: English
title: Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
publisher: Greystone Books