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In Winter's Kitchen

Autor Beth Dooley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2016

Descoperim aici o explorare fascinantă a rezilienței culinare, structurată în jurul ideii că o comunitate se poate hrăni sănătos și local chiar și în cele mai aspre condiții climatice. Reținem din paginile scrise de Beth Dooley o perspectivă rară asupra Midwest-ului american, unde prejudecățile despre o dietă monotonă sunt demontate prin întâlniri cu fermieri Hmong, producători artizani de brânzeturi și comunități native care păstrează tradiția recoltării orezului sălbatic. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea împletește propria poveste de adaptare cu profilurile celor care susțin piața locală, demonstrând că sustenabilitatea nu este doar un concept teoretic, ci o practică zilnică plină de savoare.

Fanii volumului Minnesota's Bounty vor recunoaște aceeași atenție la detaliul senzorial al piețelor volante și respectul pentru ingredientele de sezon, aplicată de data aceasta într-un context narativ mai profund, de tip memorialistic. Dacă în Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland accentul cădea pe rețete tradiționale, în acest volum Beth Dooley extinde viziunea către întregul ecosistem agricol. Ritmul lecturii este așezat, reflectând răbdarea necesară agriculturii organice, iar tonul este unul informativ, dar plin de căldură. Ilustrațiile în două culori punctează elegant textul, oferind o experiență vizuală care completează perfect atmosfera unei bucătării de iarnă unde timpul pare să stea în loc în fața unei mese gătite cu sens.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781571313614
ISBN-10: 1571313613
Pagini: 375
Ilustrații: 2-color illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 141 x 213 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Milkweed Editions

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul interesat de mișcarea farm-to-table și de modul în care geografia influențează gastronomia, această carte oferă o lecție valoroasă de sustenabilitate. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care comunitățile pot prospera consumând local, transformând provocările climatice în oportunități culinare. Este o recomandare ideală pentru cei care caută mai mult decât o carte de bucate: o poveste despre identitate și pământ.


Despre autor

Beth Dooley este o figură centrală în peisajul gastronomic american, fiind o scriitoare premiată și o susținătoare ferventă a sistemelor alimentare locale. Cu o carieră dedicată explorării legăturii dintre fermieri și consumatori, ea a documentat bogăția agricolă a Midwest-ului în numeroase volume, inclusiv în colaborări de succes precum The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen, câștigător al premiului James Beard. Experiența sa vastă în predarea cursurilor de gătit și pasiunea pentru ingredientele curate se reflectă în scriitura sa documentată, care reușește să transforme subiecte tehnice despre agricultură în narațiuni captivante și accesibile.


Descriere scurtă

Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen, shopping at farm stands, and making preserves, she couldn’t help but wonder, “Do people here really eat swampy broccoli, iceberg lettuce, and fried chicken for lunch everyday?”

These assumptions quickly faded as she began to explore farmers markets and the burgeoning co-op scene in the Twin Cities and eventually discovered a local food movement strong enough to survive the toughest winter. From the husband and wife who run one of the largest organic farms in the region to Native Americans harvesting wild rice, and from award-winning cheesemakers to Hmong immigrant farmers growing the best sweet potatoes in the country, a rich ecosystem of farmers, artisanal producers, and restaurateurs comes richly to life in this fascinating book, demonstrating that even in a place with a short growing season, food grown locally and organically can be healthy, community-based, environmentally conscious, and — most of all — delicious.

Recenzii

Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award

“Dooley does much more than recycle familiar arguments for eating local; she personalizes the path from farm to fork with heart and skill. Unapologetically sentimental, deeply informative, and always practical. . . . In Winter’s Kitchen is essential reading.”—J. Ryan Stradal, The Wall Street Journal

“Through her passionate yet straightforward and enticingly simple prose, Dooley invites us to share in her bounty. Like any good book about food, In Winter’s Kitchen inspires us to cook.”Kansas City Star

“In this homage to local food, Dooley paints an exquisite portrait. Each of Dooley’s twelve chapters showcases a different local food such as apples, wheat, chestnuts, cranberries, corn, wild rice, and sweet potatoes. The author includes a few recipes but explains that this is not a cookbook; rather, it is the story of the author building relationships with the ‘small, independent farmers, processors, and chefs’ who make their living building and contributing to local economies throughout the Upper Midwest.”Publishers Weekly

“Beth Dooley has written the book we need, a collection of stories about the foods we eat in winter, the season that is so often ignored, as if it doesn’t count somehow, or even exist. Part memoir and part serious food study with beguiling but essential recipes, you don’t have to be from Minnesota to apply the wisdom of In Winter’s Kitchen to your own life, wherever it takes place. A wonderful work!”—Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy

“Beth Dooley’s In Winter’s Kitchen is a reflection on the way that we become at home in the world, by coming into deep relationship with our food, our farmers, our family, and the land through what she refers to as ‘foraging for goodness.’ Dooley tells the story of the iconic foods of the Midwest landscape, their origins, their production as well as the challenges to the integrity of local food. Each chapter celebrates the relationship between land and culture, from Anishinaabek wild rice to Hmong sweet potatoes. Her warm inviting prose invites you to the kitchen table and reminds you of what we’re all really hungry for—connection. I wanted to linger with the lush images, ripe with memory and mothering. ‘Recipes,’ she says ‘are stories with happy endings.’”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

“Beth Dooley creates culture in the kitchen, connecting readers, farmers, and food in the soup pot of biological diversity. Knowing where we are by the food we eat was the reality of the past and is the trend of the future. In Winter’s Kitchen is a fascinating read; cultivating the knowledge we need to make diverse, local food a reliable reality—the most crucial task of our time. Read this book, and pay attention as if life depends on the truth it contains. It does.”—Atina Diffley, author of Turn Here Sweet Corn

“That Beth Dooley is a dynamite cook and journalist is a given in my book. She’s the expert who is deep in the trenches with the farmers, the artisans, hunters and the gatherers, and every important dimension of food today. With this book you get outstanding recipes and you get Beth sharing her stories, people and insights.”—Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Host and Co-Creator, The Splendid Table from American Public Media

Notă biografică

Beth Dooley is the author of In Winter's Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland, a Minnesota Book Award finalist. She has also written six cookbooks, including, with Sean Sherman, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (winner of the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook), with Lucia Watson, Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland (a James Beard Nominee) and Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook. She is also a Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota. She writes for the Star Tribune, Mpls St. Paul Magazine, The Heavy Table, and is a regular guest on Minnesota Public Radio's Appetites with Tom Crann and KARE 11 (NBC) television. Dooley lives in Minneapolis.