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Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, & One Picky Kid
by Melanie Rehak
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0547520352
- ISBN 13
- 9780547520353
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Mariner. Used - Like New. 2011. Small publisher's mark on bottom of text block. Otherwise, Fine.
Synopsis
With grace, humor, and irresistible recipes, the author of Girl Sleuth takes us on her journey as an amateur chef, amateur farmer, and amateur parent Melanie Rehak was always a passionate cook and food lover. Since reading the likes of Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Wendell Berry, she’d tried to eat thoughtfully as well. But after the birth of her son, Jules, she wanted to know more: What mattered most, organic or local? Who were these local farmers? Was it possible to be an ethical consumer and still revel in the delights of food? And why wouldn’t Jules eat anything, organic or not? Eating for Beginners details the year she spent discovering what how to be an eater and a parent in today’s increasingly complicated world. She joined the kitchen staff at applewood, a small restaurant owned by a young couple committed to using locally grown food, and worked on some of the farms that supplied it. Between prepping the nightly menu, milking goats, and sorting beans, Rehak gained an understanding of her own about what to eat and why. (It didn’t hurt that, along the way, even the most dedicated organic farmers admitted that their children sometimes ate McDonald's.) And as we follow her on her quest to find the pleasure in doing the right thing—and become a better cook in the bargain—we too will make our peace with food.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C25893
- Title
- Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, & One Picky Kid
- Author
- Melanie Rehak
- Book Condition
- New Used - Like New
- Binding
- Trade Paper
- ISBN 10
- 0547520352
- ISBN 13
- 9780547520353
- Publisher
- Mariner
- This edition first published
- 2011-08-17
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Chicago, Illinois
About Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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