Eating For Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid - Softcover

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her * 978-0156030564 * $14.00

Hilarious, moving and full of life, Eating for Beginners restores joy to its rightful place at the dinner table. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
Melanie Rehak always loved cooking, eating, and sharing food with loved ones. Like many of us, she read Michael Pollan and Wendell Berry and made an effort to buy organic and local foods. But upon the birth of her son Jules, she was suddenly responsible for feeding someone else, and she wanted to know more.
Eating for Beginners details a year of discovering what it means to be an eater and a parent in today s complicated world. Rehak harvested potatoes, milked goats, sorted beans, and worked in the kitchen at a small restaurant; she learned what to eat and why, that even the most dedicated organic farmers sometimes serve their children frozen chicken fingers, and that we really can make peace with our food.
If you feel a sensual rush in an open-air farmers market . . . you will enjoy Eating for Beginners . . [It is] not just enlightening it is life-affirming. Cleveland Plain Dealer
[Rehak is] funny, well-read and transfers her honest curiosity about what we eat and how we learn to eat to the increasingly hungry reader. And yes, there are recipes. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
MELANIE REHAK s Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her earned her both Edgar and Agatha Awards. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Real Simple, and others; her column on food books appears in Bookforum.
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