It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FZ9UMTU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 511 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
To the delight of his readers and to his young daughter's despair, Heavey also suffers serious blood loss, humiliation, and meals that are best described as edible. He experiences abundance mania in the perch run on the Potomac, and again when he spots perfect wild mushrooms in Arlington National Cemetery. A longtime contributor to Field and Stream, Bill Heavey knew more than a little about hunting and fishing when he embarked on an ambitious project a few years ago to see how far he could get eating wild. He forages for wild watercress, berries, and pawpaws within the beltway, and hunts crayfish in Louisiana and caribou on the Alaskan tundra. The rural wilds, this was not. Is it any surprise that his tasty triumphs were equaled by his hilarious misadventures? With just the right dose of self-deprecation, Heavey tells the story of his quest, beginning locally and moving out from there. He digs up the ground behind his house and plants an elaborate garden only to be driven to squirrel murder (and a cover-up). Entertaining and informative, this is Bill Heavey at his bestand worst.. With teachers that include Paula, a grizzled local so popular among DC fishers that she's been called the Pablo Escobar of herring; Hue, a Bronze Star ex-military survival instructor and foraging expert; Michelle, a single mother unself-consciously devoted to eating local, and Jody, a weathered Cajun f
"Heavey Changed My Mind" according to JNC. I love this guy and I love this book! It will change your lifebecause you will develop such a severe case of post-Heavey that nothing else will satisfy anymore, leaving you scratching through Amazon looking for more Heavey, and eventually angry at the man for only putting out two books! Fortunately he finally discovered the world of Twitter, and once you read this book you will no. Excellent Read Clark D. Cochran I purchased this book at the same time I purchased Inferno by Dan Brown. After reading a couple chapters of both, I put down Inferno and stuck to Mr. Heavey's book. I found it very entertaining, educational, and a delightful read with endearing use of self-deprecation and personal and family anecdotes. I laughed out loud plenty of times, shed a couple tears of joy in the personal . Bill, isn't it about time for another book? I am a big fan of Bill Heavey and his F&S column. Bill, isn't it time for another book?