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Gina Rae La Cerva is a geographer, environmental anthropologist, and award-winning writer who has traveled extensively to research a variety of environmental and food-related topics. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, La Cerva holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. La Cerva lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
An Amazon Best of June pick!
“Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we
once ate and what we have lost since then.”
—A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading
Selection
“La Cerva’s beautifully written narrative is as tantalizing as it
is edifying.”
—Publishers Weekly STARRED review
“It is rare these days to find a food book with a truly original
take on food. Feasting Wild gives you a great deal to
think about and at the same time is a pleasure to read.”
—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author
of Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common
Fate and Salt: A World History
“An extraordinary book. My mouth watered, my mind expanded, and my
heart broke and was remade through this superb writing.”
—David George Haskell, author of Pulitzer finalist The Forest
Unseen
“This is the food book I’ve always wanted to read—a witty,
illuminating, and beautifully written travelogue that rightly
centers the historical role of women and the importance of
Indigenous knowledge. Throw away the trite faux-wisdom of
dietitians and gorge yourself instead on the charming platter that
Gina Rae La Cerva has served up.”
—Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes
“A delightful culinary travel book.”
—Outside Magazine
“La Cerva reveals the landscape in brightly lit detail and gives
generously of herself, and the result makes for a suitably
satisfying feast.”
—Science Magazine
“By turns lyrical, melancholy, and invigorating, Feasting
Wild is an enthralling and necessary meditation on what it
means to love the feral in a world increasingly of our making.”
—Taras Grescoe, author of Possess the Air, Straphanger,
and Bottomfeeder
“Eloquent and utterly original. Page after page I savored the
thrill of a sentence driving home a surprising new way to think
about the world.”
—George Johnson, author of The Ten Most Beautiful
Experiments
“Feasting Wild is a rich literary banquet, its pages a
smorgasbord of intrepid travelogue, unflinching memoir, and keen
ecological history. Where the worldviews of Cheryl Strayed and
Michael Pollan converge, you’ll find this perspective, big-hearted,
beautifully crafted book.”
—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager: The surprising, Secret Life of
Beavers and Why They Matter
“La Cerva demonstrates her ability for diligent observation, and
[…] offers glimpses of human activities that have grown
increasingly rare.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A curious, passionate, and beautifully poetic book. La Cerva
uncovers something essential about our enduring desire for wildness
in a world where it is rapidly vanishing.”
—James Prosek, artist and author of Trout: An Illustarted
History
“Gina Rae La Cerva is a modern-day hunter-gatherer, scouring the
planet to bring us delicious stories and lessons about our world.
Her writing is original and thought-provoking, and even though it's
not always palatable how we've transformed our native flora and
fauna, her adventurous storytelling is endlessly satisfying.”
—Daniel Stone, author of The Food Explorer
“Gina Rae La Cerva’s engrossing book celebrates wild-harvested food
but also mourns it, showing how plentiful staples have dwindled
time and again to overexploited luxuries. Mixing memoir,
travelogue, and environmental history, Feasting Wild is a
lyrical and lucid exploration of hunger and fulfillment, richly
detailed and beautifully told.”
—Thor Hanson, author of Buzz and The Triumph of
Seeds
“[La Cerva's] writing pulls together personal narrative and
research in a way that is not only accessible, but intensely
revealing, taking us back through time, across oceans and land, and
impressing upon us all that is lost when we forgo or commodify
wildness.”
—Madison Cruz, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
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