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Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection
by Jessica Prentice
ISBN-10: 1933392002
ISBN-13: 9781933392004
ISBN-13: 9781933392004
Region: USA
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Publication Date: April, 2006
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About Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection
Publisher Web Link: http://www.chelseagreen.com/
Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.
In Full Moon Feast, accomplished chef and passionate food activist Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods. The book follows the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, from the midwinter Hunger Moon and the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn. Each chapter includes recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors of foods tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.
Prentice decries our modern food culture: megafarms and factories, the chemically processed ghosts of real foods in our diets, and the suffering--physical, emotional, cultural, communal, and spiritual--born of a disconnect from our food sources. She laments the system that is poisoning our bodies and our communities.
But Full Moon Feast is a celebration, not a dirge. Prentice has emerged from her own early struggles with food to offer health, nourishment, and fulfillment to her readers. She recounts her relationships with local farmers alongside ancient harvest legends and methods of food preparation from indigenous cultures around the world.
Combining the radical nutrition of Sally Fallon\'s Nourishing Traditions, keen agri-political acumen, and a spiritual sensibility that draws from indigenous as well as Western traditions, Full Moon Feast is a call to reconnect to our food, our land, and each other.
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About Jessica Prentice
Author Web Link: http://www.wisefoodways.com/
Jessica Prentice is both a professional chef and a passionate home cook. In her cooking, Jessica brings together creativity and imagination with a deep respect for traditional cuisine and time-honored culinary practices. Through her work, she seeks to provide a model for how communities can feed themselves in a way that is satisfying and health-supportive on all levels: delicious, environmentally responsible, and grounded in the wise nourishing traditions of our forebears. In her workshops, she seeks to both inspire people to cook, and help them develop the practical skills to feel successful in the kitchen.
Jessica wrote a New Moon Newsletter called Stirring the Cauldron that was sent out to internet subscribers around the world on each new moon. The past three years of installments are archived on this website.
Career and training
Most recently, Jessica Prentice worked as the Director of Education Programs at the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, where she conducted Farm Tours to some of Northern California\'s most ecologically oriented farms and ranches, taught live cooking demos, hosted panel discussions around issues of sustainable agriculture, and conducted regular interviews with farmers at the Saturday morning Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
Jessica is the former chef of the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California, where she worked from 1997 to 2000 developing a successful food program bringing together her passions for culinary traditions, ingredients that reflect the greatest ecological integrity, and the spirit of community gathered around food, cooking, and our shared humanity. In 2001 she founded the Headlands Hearth Bakery and Cafe, a community dining hall in the Marin Headlands, featuring locally and sustainably grown foods, home cooked into delicious meals, at an affordable price. The Hearth Cafe was centered around a beautiful wood-fired brick oven, where naturally-leavened hearth loaves are baked.
She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in New York, from the nation\'s only professional chef\'s training program that focuses on food and health and natural foods.
Jessica is a Bay Area chapter head for the Weston A. Price Foundation for wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts.
(http://www.wisefoodways.com/)
