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Living - and Eating - Off the Land
by Siobhan
Food & Drink / November 16, 2009
When we say that we made a meal 'from scratch', for most of us, that doesn't include actually catching the fish or forgaging for the mushrooms. It certainly does not mean free-diving into icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a snaggletooth lingcod.
But that level of committement to living - and eating - off the land is what author Langdon Cook is all about. Cook was a senior book editor at Amazon.com until 2004, when he left the corporate world to live in a cabin off the grid with his wife and son. In his book, FAT OF THE LAND: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, Cook shares his experiences living in a new way.
Monqiue at SoMisguided.com has posted a review of the book. The subject's close to home for her: she and her partner James also enjoy going out to catch crabs in the cold waters in and around Vancouver. Read the full review on SoMisguided.com - along with some cool (cold?) photos of crab catching.
You can find out a bit more about FAT OF THE LAND here, and keep with the author on the Fat of the Land blog, where he writes about his adventures in the culinary wilderness and also posts some recipes - such as fishing for pink salmon, then making Blackberry Must & Citrus Cured Salmon. Mmm.
“In Fat of the Land, Langdon Cook invites us to share in his enthusiastic, salubrious, wild food foraging quests. Get out of town, breathe in the fresh air, hear the quiet, exercise, feel good, connect with nature and the season—then return to the kitchen to delicious preparations of dandelion greens, squid, fiddleheads, or whatever the quarry. Lively, informative, soul-satisfying narrative.” —Jon Rowley, Contributing Editor, Gourmet
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