SEASONING: A POETS YEAR, WITH SEASONAL RECIPES
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814208037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 348 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
David Young combines autobiography, poetry, nature writing, and food writing in a book that celebrates life without denying its losses and mysteries. Set in northeastern Ohio, where the author has lived and worked for close to forty years, Seasoning demonstrates that an "unremarkable" place - no grand scenery, no special claims to beauty - can be the perfect setting in which to learn about animals, plants, food, geology, history, weather, and time. Coming to terms with place and time, and connecting them, the author suggests, may be our true task in life. Among the many distinctive Features of this book are the recipes, arranged seasonally and revealing Young's preference for natural foods prepared with care.. Organized by the months of the year, Seasoning traces the passing of time and the cycles of loss and renewal, meditating on the human place in the natural world
"Worth foraging for" according to Mike Luster. Ohio poet David Young weaves together poetry, natural history, autobiography, and food in a wonderfully imagined and executed series of twelve monthly chapters, each rounded out with a gathering of recipes based on what's in season and influenced by an adept mingling of native ingredients and Italian technique. He'll send you out in search of wild mushrooms and inspire a hunt for his own well crafted poems and translations. Highly recommended.
Young worked as a super-computer analyst for Nichols Research Corporation and Computer Sciences Corporation, and as an affiliate professor of chemistry at Auburn University. DAVID YOUNG, PhD, is a scientist with Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics in Dallas, Texas. . Prior to joining the team at Cytoclonal, Dr
From Booklist Skillful and astute, Young is a wordsmith who brings his own particularly satisfying sense of place--call it a "bioregional" awareness of his Ohio surroundings--to this creative melding of culinary segments and lyrical observations on the changing seasons. Presented in a format of musings combining lyrical vignettes, recollected adventures, and a rich peppering of poems (of his own making, as well as the poetry of others), Young's book also unveils a bevy of enticing recipes arranged by month. The reader may be inspired to cook up penne with vodka on a freezing January night, or perhaps you will concoct a cool meal of tasty eggplant caponata in the heat of a summer's afternoon, if either your garden or the corner market yields fresh produce. Delighting in words and in the industry of cooking for enjoyment, Young yields an exceptional harvest for readers. Alice Joyce